But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing—a universe that we humans, with our limited perspective, will someday understand.

With something like Chernobyl, the public reaction was Oh, my God, science has really done wrong.

There is no doubt that a parallel exists between the big bang as an event and the Christian notion of creation from nothing.

The big bang, the most cataclysmic event we can imagine, on closer inspection appears finely orchestrated.

But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing — a universe that we humans, with our limited perspective, will someday understand.

I think we all want to know where we came from and how we fit into the world, but some of us need to know how it all works in great detail.

Both my parents instilled an interest in science and mathematics.

I played football and ran track in junior high, but by high school I was getting serious about my studies.

My name is George Smoot III, and I AM smarter than a fifth-grader.

The discovery and investigation of life on other planets is likely to change many of our ideas about how life arose on the Earth and even what is life and its natural development.

I recognized exactly where she was—that state where you’re able to hold it together as long as absolutely no one talks to you or touches you with any amount of sympathy.

TIME' is something to invest but for failed people, it is a thing to be passed.

Every one of us is a minor tragedy. Most of us learn to cope.

In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.

Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.

I want to bring softness and refinement to an urban, feminine wardrobe and to help the woman show her character and individuality through her unique clothes.

Arizona is now recognized as a premier place in which to locate, expand and grow a business.

I say what other people won't.

He pulls the hood over my head. I try to pull back. I'm not trying to run away. I just want to see her... One last time.

Explore the situation. Statements are expendable. Don't keep on looking in the rearview mirror and defending the status quo which is outmoded the moment it happened.