I'd say many features of string theory don't mesh with what we observe in everyday life.

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?

Start a revolution. Love thy neighbor.

A global mind thinks about interconnections and interdependencies and their impacts and consequences, both on a local and a global level.

Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.

Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.

You can disguise any set with lights and shadows.

I deserved to find pleasure that surpassed my imagination, better than any I had experienced.

These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.

Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our brains.

Why not make a daily pleasure out a daily necessity.

I think the key to passion, to zeal, is gratitude. Or to put it another way, the fuel to motivate is gratitude.