To become a theoretical physicist ... you need to have a passionate love affair with the universe.

All kids are born geniuses, but are crushed by society.

What is the universe? The universe is a symphony of vibrating strings...we are nothing but melodies. We are nothing but cosmic music played out on vibrating strings and membranes.

The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe.

If you could meet your grandkids as elderly citizens in the year 2100 … you would view them as being, basically, Greek gods… that's where we're headed.

It's pointless to have a nice clean desk, because it means you're not doing anything.

Music is the voice of God traveling through ten-dimensional hyperspace.

What do oil company executives, vampires and NASA bureaucrats all have in common? They fear solar energy.

Common sense has no place in Quantum Mechanics.

I believe we exist in a multiverse of universes.

We have the media, which is such a waste in the sense that you can actually feel your IQ get lower as you watch TV.

...ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know...

You came into my life like the rain to the parched desert!

My knowledge of Abuja is not as deep as my knowledge of Lagos.

Even though you really don't feel like you're motivated to go to the gym, remember how good you felt after the last time you went. Keep that in the forefront of your brain.

But now I can see that there is redemption and beauty in an accident emanating from love.

I like to go out and see what a city's all about.

Taking this view, it is possible to see financial markets as a laboratory for testing hypotheses, albeit not strictly scientific ones. The truth is, successful investing is a kind of alchemy.

If a player's not doing the things he should, put him on the bench. He'll come around.

If it's a terrible script, it's a terrible bore.

Success is like Halley's comet, you know. Every now and then it just comes around.