Far from being accidental details, the properties of nature's basic building blocks are deeply entwined with the fabric of space and time.

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 future vibrated with uncertainty. I had failed. I had ignorance. I had hope.

Informed clients are better clients, and they make for better design.

But I am convinced that those Jews who stand aside today with a malicious smile and with their hands in their trousers' pockets will also want to dwell in our beautiful home.

I just think that things should be allowed to run their course, and not turned into a Disney ride.

When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their memory, you may be sure it is no longer a pain to them.

I never see my movies. When they're on television, I click them away. Hollywood created an image, and I long ago reconciled myself with it. I was the French cliche.

I think that the reality is, is that there's a shift in the mood in the USA that's very anti-Washington.

Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment or for any exploitative purpose.

The knight departing for new adventures offends his lady, yet she has nothing but contempt for him if he remains at her feet.

We are all God's animated cartoons.