Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.

There is so much to groak; So little to groak from.

Einstein, in the special theory of relativity, proved that different observers, in different states of motion, see different realities.

A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen how to understand some difficult scientific idea.

You have to say now that space is something. Space can vibrate, space can fluctuate, space can be quantum mechanical, but what the devil is it?

[Richard Feynman] truly believed that if you couldn't explain something simply, you didn't understand it.

I was from a poor Jewish family in the South Bronx. My father was a plumber, but when I was 16, he got sick and I had to take over. Being a plumber in the South Bronx wasn't fun.

We often say that the earth is a sphere, but to be precise, the term sphere refers only to the surface. The correct mathematical term for the solid earth is a ball.

I was going to engineering school but fell in love with physics.

Science blogs bore me. When everyone is an expert, no one is an expert.

At some point we have to give up and say that's just the way it is. Or, not give up and push on.

We're part of a mixed marriage -- he's male

The greatest triumph is victory over all trials.

Communication is so key.

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.

That's one of the things I love about being a songwriter first, last and always, because whether I do it or not, if someone does a great job on it, my work is done.

I want more muscles! I go to the gym three or four times a week with a personal trainer. I can afford that now. I can't put on weight though, no matter how much I eat.

My goal is to try to avoid a regular job.

I feel like God has forgiven me of so much, that I will forgive everyone who has hurt us

In the convulsions of the commodity economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before they have crumbled.