Murray Gell-Mann

The only way to understand the universe is to understand the simple rules that underlie it.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

The quantum world is not only stranger than you imagine, it is stranger than you can imagine.

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve.

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.

The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.