If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake.

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?

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Be sensational, be surprising, and be remarkable. Activate your star power!

Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.

To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old.

For you girl, there is not enough love in the world.

I can’t write five words but that I change seven.

For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive.

Gin a body meet a body Coming thro' the rye, Gin a body kiss a body— Need a body cry?

We are saved by a man who died loving his enemies.

I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it's fiction.