Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty.

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

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?

Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon.

In the mirror we see a stranger, Not the person we were born to be, For we are all pretending, Just for everyone to see.

When a person is loved, they are granted the strength of all seas.

You will get when you deserve, not when you desire! So Accept Life and Live in the Now!

The time is ripe and rotten-ripe for change then let it come.

If you turn your life over to the Lord he can do so much more with it than we can.

I must admit I suffered a bit when I first came to England. But then I realised that there was nothing to be intimidated by, everybody had two legs.

Measure the hate you feel now, and the shame. That quantity is your capacity also to love and to feel joy and to have compassion.

As anyone who has ever fallen foul of an airport, a conventional hospital or a bad restaurant knows, misery is made up of little things.

If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.

I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.