Probably if you look like Tyra Banks, it probably is hard, even if you are really smart, for people to take - it surprises some.

Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries - the arts and humanities.

It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.

Basically, I wasn't properly socialized, so it made sense to do physics.

When it comes to the world around us, is there any choice but to explore?

One of the nice things about math and science is it’s obvious, you get the answer or you don’t get the answer.

Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress.

Sometimes models are surprisingly smart.

Travel at faster than the speed of light certainly can have dramatic implications that are difficult to understand, such as time travel.

I did not set out to explain the extinction of the dinosaurs. I'm a particle physicist, and I was actually thinking about dark matter along with some collaborators.

Science is a combination of theory and experiment and the two together are how you make progress.

Nothing good in this world comes free! For everything there’s a payment of time or money or soul!

What some call health if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet isn't much better than tedious disease.

Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.

I could see that everything I had identified as really me, was not really me, but was just a pattern of strategies to avoid some kind of abyss or emptiness.

You feel pretty gross when you are first pregnant. You don't feel cute, you feel disgusting. You're getting fat. It was hard.

I was certainly typecast for a while on television because I was always being cast as the compassionate mother or whatever.

I still feel like the same person, in every way - it is just some of my surroundings have changed and there are lots of new people in my life.

I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's good for me.

Every problem contains the seed of it's own solution.

Competition and the market are like water, they go where they want