The real question is whether all your pondering and analyses will convince you that life is worth living. That's what it all comes down to.

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?

In poverty a man is alone. But with prosperity, He has many friends.

From apparently the basest metals we have the finest toned bells.

"despair all ye mortals," he said in a voice of doom. "the mama approacheth"

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

I don't like watching myself. I get embarrassed.

I always thought that if I ever got good reviews I'd be happy. It's so empty. It's never what I wanted, ever. All I wanted was just what everybody else wants - to be loved.

You pick me up and brush me off and tell me I'm okay, sometimes that's just what we need to get us through the day.

No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.

Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One's Mind about Another Person.

Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it