“There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi.”

“Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to us they have intrinsic beauty, and we dream of finding new secrets of nature as important and as exciting as those uncovered by our scientific heroes.”

“There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi.”