There is real confusion about what it means to be right and wrong - the difference between what spiritual beliefs are and what science is.

Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries - the arts and humanities.

It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.

Basically, I wasn't properly socialized, so it made sense to do physics.

When it comes to the world around us, is there any choice but to explore?

One of the nice things about math and science is it’s obvious, you get the answer or you don’t get the answer.

Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress.

Sometimes models are surprisingly smart.

Travel at faster than the speed of light certainly can have dramatic implications that are difficult to understand, such as time travel.

I did not set out to explain the extinction of the dinosaurs. I'm a particle physicist, and I was actually thinking about dark matter along with some collaborators.

Science is a combination of theory and experiment and the two together are how you make progress.

We must design how we wish to be perceived, and then we must work even harder to continuously recreate and re-evaluate that perception.

The Arab World is writing a new future the pen is in our own hands.

Time is invincible, impregnable, insurmountable, invulnerable, unstoppable and time is invisible.

Somehow I seem to have been gently bypassed as a serious actor.

Listen to your hunches, pay attention to your intuition, do not dismiss your random thoughts, inspirations or ideas.... They could be giving you the best advice you ever had.

Just because you have long legs doesn't mean you'll be happy as a Rockette.

There!" Apollo pointed. "Long Island, dead ahead. Let's slow down, dear. 'Dead' is only an expression.

The depth of learning is in direct relation to the intensity of the experience.

I know a lot less about God, but the things I know about God, I know a whole lot more, for sure.