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.

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.

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

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 mansion was as silent as I wished the inside of my head could be. No noise – not even a ragged inhale of breath or a whispered word. Truly blissful.

I satirize at all times, and my hyperboles are as nothing compared to the events to which they refer.

We don't live the lives of Eskimos. We don't need to kill animals for fashion.

Every time something bad happens, like we lose a day because of weather or an actor gets injured or anything else happens, the schedule has to change. It's the most challenging Tetris puzzle.

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

If you have humility you are halfway to God-realization.

The only man who really needs a tail coat is a man with a hole in his trousers.

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

God is the one who saved me. He who believes in God, in His cause and His truth is capable of standing up to the greatest power.

I just really like seeing mundane stuff in movies. It's realistic.