I'm afraid the workings of J.J. Abrams' mind falls outside the predictive capacity of any coherent theory.

I think the universe is pure geometry - basically, a beautiful shape twisting around and dancing over space-time.

The mathematics of quantum mechanics very accurately describes how our universe works. And it tells us our reality is continually branching into different possibilities, just like a coral.

You cannot think when you're ecstatic.

Everything that can happen, does. That's quantum mechanics. But this does not mean everything happens. The rest of physics is about describing what can happen and what can't.

There are a lot of good things about string theory, and it's great that some people want to work on it.

Yeah, I am a guy working on physics outside of academia. But I'm nowhere near Einstein's caliber.

Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them.

Science is our last and greatest frontier.

Ninety-five per cent of my time is virtually wasted.

Coral is a very beautiful and unusual animal. Each coral head consists of thousand of individual polyps. These polyps are continually budding and branching into genetically identical neighbors.

Reading literary fiction stimulates cognition beyond the brain functions related to reading, say, magazine articles, interviews, or most online nonfiction reporting.

People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder.

The proof that the little prince existed is that he was charming, that he laughed, and that he was looking for a sheep. If anybody wants a sheep, that is a proof that he exists.

I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Money itch is a bad thing. I never had that trouble.

It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.

There is no such thing as being good to your wife.

I like interacting with human beings, so being on stage feels like a larger version of that - kind of like throwing a party.

When we want to speak to God, we pray. And when we want Him to speak to us, we search the scriptures.