The big bang, the most cataclysmic event we can imagine, on closer inspection appears finely orchestrated.

With something like Chernobyl, the public reaction was Oh, my God, science has really done wrong.

There is no doubt that a parallel exists between the big bang as an event and the Christian notion of creation from nothing.

But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing — a universe that we humans, with our limited perspective, will someday understand.

I think we all want to know where we came from and how we fit into the world, but some of us need to know how it all works in great detail.

Both my parents instilled an interest in science and mathematics.

I played football and ran track in junior high, but by high school I was getting serious about my studies.

My name is George Smoot III, and I AM smarter than a fifth-grader.

But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing—a universe that we humans, with our limited perspective, will someday understand.

The discovery and investigation of life on other planets is likely to change many of our ideas about how life arose on the Earth and even what is life and its natural development.

The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds

I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.

As a personal matter, I stopped voting more than a decade ago, on the grounds that it helped me as an analyst not to think about making a choice in the voting booth.

In a pitch black room, you can affirm "let their be light" or you can light one candle.

Vision is nothing without a plan to execute it.

After my final Breaking Dawn scene, I felt like I could shoot up into the night sky and every pore of my body would shoot light. I felt lighter than I've ever felt in my life.

I must say, I find everything interesting.

I've been variations of vegetarian for over 20 years. I'm Canadian so I always say, be the best you can be.

All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown.

We were taught instead of just reading about life we needed to go out and live it.