Assessing existence while failing to embrace the insights of modern physics would be like wrestling in the dark with an unknown opponent.

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.

Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding.

When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level

Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty.

We're on this planet for the briefest of moments in cosmic terms, and I want to spend that time thinking about what I consider the deepest questions.

Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.

I was holding [my four-year-old daughter] and I said, 'Sophia, I love you more than anything in the universe.' And she turned to me and said, 'Daddy, universe or multiverse?'

Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future.

All you are is a bag of particles acting out the laws of physics. That to me is pretty clear.

Physics grapples with the largest questions the universe presents. Where did the totality of reality come from? Did time have a beginning?

Let the base louder...!?

Break your bad labels instead of living in them.

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct....

It's so sad: anything that has to do with God, people want to dispel.

The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.

The most beautiful ape is ugly when compared to a human. The wisest human will seem like an ape when compared to a god with respect to wisdom, beauty, and everything else.

I've always explored various areas of society.

In the poem "C," the crows are associated with cancer, because I had suffered a cancer scare.

I believe in a higher force that is within me.

Mouse was the truest friend I ever had. And if there is such a thing as true evil, he was that too.