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

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.

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.

What physics tells us is that everything comes down to geometry and the interactions of elementary particles. And things can happen only if these interactions are perfectly balanced.

Courage is the difference between success and failure. You must have this attitude, this is the right thing to do, so let's do it.

From oriole to crow, note the declineIn music. Crow is realist. But, then, Oriole, also, may be realist.

She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.

When we are lost in the woods, the sight of a signpost is a great matter.

May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy.

That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain sight.

A woman should be an illusion

The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation?

One of the things I enjoy most about writing historical romance is researching inspiring backgrounds and settings.

Where ever fear exists, courage can be found.