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

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

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 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 more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Every soul is a story waiting to be read.

A stupid question asks about things so fundamental that everyone assumes the answer is obvious.

Language is a ladder that always falls short of reality.

I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound. I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.

Love me tender, love me true, all my dreams fulfill. For my darling, I love you, and I always will.

It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.

True learning takes energy, passion and a burning desire.

Banning guns because of their misuse is like banning the First Amendment because one might libel or slander.

The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.

Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don't feel safe.