We certainly don't yet know all the answers. But the universe is about to be pried open.

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.

To the young man a kind of worship of some power outside himself is essential. one has strength and enthusiasm and wants gods to worship.

Don’t let them fool you and tell you goals has to be unified before any partnership agreement. Be carefully concerned about unifying your values and principles, after that all will run smoothly.

The word is only a representation of the meaning, even at its best, writing almost always falls short of full meaning.

I'd like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.

It is not necessary to wait until all conditions for making revolution exist; the insurrection can create them.

I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context.

If our opinions rest upon solid ground, those who attack them do not make us angry, but themselves ridiculous.

I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended like a hair or a feather in the cloudy mixtures of memory.

The Christian church does not need more popular preaching, but more unpopular preaching.