There's no way that scientists can ever rule out religion, or even have anything significant to say about the abstract idea of a divine creator.

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?

Far too often, when we think we are frightened by mystery, the fact is that we are haunted by history.

We cannot save ourselves. It is only Jesus Christ, who can set us free.

I was practically The Boy in the Bubble

Birds of a feather flock together.

Audiophiles don't use their equipment to listen to your music. Audiophiles use your music to listen to their equipment.

No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor.

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

The people can have anything they want, the only problem is they do not want anything.

Going with the flow is soothing but risky.

Primes are the atoms of the arithmetic - the hydrogen and oxygen of the world of numbers