Scientific revolutions, almost by definition, defy common sense.

All kids are born geniuses, but are crushed by society.

What is the universe? The universe is a symphony of vibrating strings...we are nothing but melodies. We are nothing but cosmic music played out on vibrating strings and membranes.

The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe.

If you could meet your grandkids as elderly citizens in the year 2100 … you would view them as being, basically, Greek gods… that's where we're headed.

It's pointless to have a nice clean desk, because it means you're not doing anything.

Music is the voice of God traveling through ten-dimensional hyperspace.

What do oil company executives, vampires and NASA bureaucrats all have in common? They fear solar energy.

Common sense has no place in Quantum Mechanics.

I believe we exist in a multiverse of universes.

We have the media, which is such a waste in the sense that you can actually feel your IQ get lower as you watch TV.

Meditation makes us happier!

Only stagnant people get stuck because they don't attempt to move at all.

Why does everyone make fun of New Jersey? It's beautiful here, " she said."We live in America.""What does that mean?""People like to judge without knowing.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

If the Dalai Lama joins one party, then that makes it hard for the system to work.

How could I bear a crown of gold when the Lord bears a crown of thorns? And bears it for me!

My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working today in the business.

Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics.

If you're satisfied with everything you're just going to stay at one level and the world will move ahead.

If skating got into the Olympics, I would be tempted to hold off on shredding for a year and just skate, to make that my new goal. In that sport, I'm still the underdog.