I was going to engineering school but fell in love with physics.

There is so much to groak; So little to groak from.

Einstein, in the special theory of relativity, proved that different observers, in different states of motion, see different realities.

A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen how to understand some difficult scientific idea.

You have to say now that space is something. Space can vibrate, space can fluctuate, space can be quantum mechanical, but what the devil is it?

Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.

[Richard Feynman] truly believed that if you couldn't explain something simply, you didn't understand it.

I was from a poor Jewish family in the South Bronx. My father was a plumber, but when I was 16, he got sick and I had to take over. Being a plumber in the South Bronx wasn't fun.

We often say that the earth is a sphere, but to be precise, the term sphere refers only to the surface. The correct mathematical term for the solid earth is a ball.

Science blogs bore me. When everyone is an expert, no one is an expert.

At some point we have to give up and say that's just the way it is. Or, not give up and push on.

When the world is pregnant with lies, a secret long hidden will be revealed.

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.

There are many ways to fall down, but there's only one way to stand up straight.

The gods hate unjust men.

I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.

Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family... what my mother called 'The Liar.'

Except for me, no one in my family could draw.

Once you fall in love... It's different.

You didn't understand or care to know, you get your education from your lovers.