It's hard to figure out the secrets of the universe when you're trying to figure out where you and your girlfriend are going to sleep next month.

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.

It's not about breaking down borders. It's about pushing off of them, and seeing what amazing places they might bring us.

The Iago trance is a state that we've really come to accept as normal, even if we may not feel it to be natural.

It takes a little bit of mindfulness and a little bit of attention to others to be a good listener, which helps cultivate emotional nurturing and engagement.

Humanitarianism is rude.

One of the wonderful things about being an actor is that every director is different.

Taigen Dan Leighton has lovingly illumined still another dimension of the human condition.

People often forget this - a vinyl album could only contain a maximum of 20 minutes per side!

If you can take photographs with language, I'm taking one right now.

The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system!

I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.