"The goal of science is to make sense of the world, not to explain it away."

"I often say that there is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum physical description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we…"

"The electron is not a 'thing' in the ordinary sense, but a 'tendency to exist'."

"No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical."

"When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections."