I'm convinced that art and science activate the same parts of the brain.

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.

In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.

An ordinary mistake is one that leads to a dead end, while a profound mistake is one that leads to progress. Anyone can make an ordinary mistake, but it takes a genius to make a profound mistake.

The brain rewards us for interacting with beautiful things. In this way, evolution wants to encourage us to do what is good for us.

Why is there something rather than nothing?

I believe that everything you've said is not even wrong.

The answer to the ancient question Why is there something rather than nothing would be that nothingis unstable.

I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy-- of course, both those ideas are really the same idea.

If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems

The answer to the ancient question 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' would then be that ‘nothing’ is unstable.

We all have purpose. We are all guardians. We are the angels and we are the demons. We are all gods if we choose to be. Believe.

Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they're loved and wanted and then show them that it's all a sham.

I thought I would like a job where inquiring about everyone else's private business was considered perfectly routine.

Did Romeo and Juliet have a ... "relationship"? The term "relationship" ... betokens a chaste egalitarianism leveling different ranks and degrees of attachment.

I've never been one that thinks that the function of an instrument is to approach the purity of voice or the structure of a beautifully sung line.

Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil-but there is no way around them.

The script is the coloring book that you’re given, and your job is to figure out how to color it in. And also when and where to color outside the lines.

My 20s were a time where I made it; my 30s were when I was away, confused, and trying to figure it all out.

I will take as a given that, for most people, somewhere between six and seven billion of them, the perfect job is the one that takes the least time.