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Intellectual curiosity drove Einstein to some of the world's most important discoveries.

The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so did quantum mechanics, and so did other things.

We know there must be new physics. For example, we cannot explain what dark matter is.

I'd have to be superman to do some of the things I'm supposed to have done, I've been at six different places at six different times.

Dreams of warp drives and hyperspace are just that - dreams.

Quantum Mechanics is different. Its weirdness is evident without comparison. It is harder to train your mind to have quantum mechanical tuition, because quantum mechanics shatters our own personal, individual conception of reality

Finding out that something you have just discovered is considered all but impossible is one of the joys of science.

Einstein does not remain attached to the classical principles, and when presented with a problem in physics he quickly envisages all of its possibilities. This leads immediately in his mind to the prediction of new phenomena which may one day be verified by experiment.

To try to do something which is inherently impossible is always a corrupting enterprise.

Loving your neighbour as much as yourself is practically bloody impossible? You might as well have a commandment that states,'Thou shalt fly'.

Mathematics is not something that you find lying around in your back yard. It's produced by the human mind. Yet if we ask where mathematics works best, it is in areas like particle physics and astrophysics, areas of fundamental science that are very, very far removed from everyday affairs.

Unless you come out of your mind and become a no-mind you will not know what life is all about, you will live in vain. You will not have your honeymoon, it is impossible. You will not know the sweetness that existence is full of and the ecstasy.

One of your American professors said that to study religion was merely to know the mind of man, but if one truly wanted to know the mind of God, you must study physics.

There is a maxim about the universe which I always tell my students: That which is not explicitly forbidden is guaranteed to occur.

It is impossible to do anything for anyone.

Too often we jump to the conclusion that something is impossible simply because we cannot see the solution. No one knows enough to be a pessimist.

In the America I see from here, anything is possible - especially the impossible.

There are very few things that can be proved rigorously in condensed matter physics.

A theorist today is hardly considered respectable if he or she has not introduced at least one new particle for which there is no experimental evidence.

Classical physics has been superseded by quantum theory: quantum theory is verified by experiments. Experiments must be described in terms of classical physics.

What more could you ask for in life than to be given an impossible challenge?

Just because something seems impossible doesn't make it untrue.

That there should absolutely be nothing at all is utterly impossible. The mind, let it stretch its conceptions ever so far, can never so much as bring itself to conceive of a state of perfect nothing.

Americans usually believe that nothing is impossible.

Only the impossible lasts forever.