God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.

If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.

Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

If you can't explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood .

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

My rule is, when you are unhappy, think about it. But when you're happy, don't. Why spoil it? You're probably happy for some ridiculous reason and you'd just spoil it to know it.

Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.

The only way to deep happiness is to do something you love to the best of your ability

Einstein was a giant. His head was in the clouds, but his feet were on the ground. But those of us who are not that tall have to choose!

I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

I prayed for someone to love me as much as I love you. Eventually I came to see that that "someone" was me.

However hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels...

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

The election of Senator Barack Obama brought jubilation across Africa, where millions celebrated him as 'one of their own.'

I've never felt like my career has been on fire.

The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

Even though the clock didn't work, we kept the clock because of how we felt about Franklin D. Roosevelt . A lot since then I knew about FDR I wouldn't have been so enthusiastic.

The graphic style itself is influenced by a lot of very layered and detailed comics that I read as a kid, like Vagabond by Takehiko Inoue.