"I was at a party once, and some woman said to me, 'You're a scientist, you know all about radiation. How much radiation is in a banana?' I said, 'A banana has about 1/1000th of a milligram of radium i…"

"I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there."

"I took the wavicles—the little particles of waves—and put them in a box."

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."

"I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb."