Nature's patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It's nature's version of nature versus nurture.

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?

The Universe is the creation of the mind. Universe exists inside the mind as the flower exists inside the seed.

I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.

With Saturday morning cartoons, you've got to start at 6 A.M., right?

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married.

I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something

Only by fighting for democratic power do workers educate themselves up to the level of being able to wield that power.

Leadership is character in action.

In these long-standing conflicts, I find that most cases it gets resolved in about twenty minutes after each side can tell me the needs of the other.

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.