Einstein's theory of relativity does a fantastic job for explaining big things. Quantum mechanics is fantastic for the other end of the spectrum - for small things.

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?

The truth is that most of us are not our best selves.

Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them

Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.

There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.

Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is its nature.

We were so ready [with Valerian] that we were early, which is unheard of in the history of the sci-fi film.

Veteran art creates a meeting place between veterans and civilians, or simply between veterans with different experiences.

The first cut is the deepest.

As a kid, I was a Hitchcock lover; I cared about the dark side of things.

Prepare while others are daydreaming.