We hope to explain the entire universe in a single, simple formula that you can wear on your T-shirt.

Theorists write all the popular books on science: Heinz Pagels, Frank Wilczek, Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, et al. And why not? They have all that spare time.

Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.

The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God.

I sometimes think about the tower at Pisa as the first particle accelerator, a (nearly) vertical linear accelerator that Galileo used in his studies.

Those who do not stop asking silly questions become scientists.

Science should have no less lofty a goal. My ambition is to live to see all of physics reduced to a formula so elegant and simple that it will fit easily on the front of a T-shirt.

My children have often asked me why I never received a Nobel Prize. I used to tell them it was because the Nobel committee couldn’t make up its mind which of my projects to recognize.

I'm so old I can remember when the Dead Sea was only sick.

One of the major ingredients for professional success in science is luck. Without this, forget it.

Neutrinos ... win the minimalist contest: zero charge, zero radius, and very possibly zero mass.

My fear of loneliness is like a disease.

He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.

Why not live for the reaches of Heaven than strive for the depths of Hell? If in the end there is nothing- what have you lost but fear and anger and hate?

I certainly don't disparage someone whose attitude towards their work is utterly different from mine - that's up to them.

I prefer to talk about the gift of literature rather than its role or task.

If life was a piece of cake, it wouldn't be worth eating!

Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.

Endorsed by Bob Jones, despite calling Mormonism a "cult".

If you never lived out your sexuality - it's a great force, and if you try to fight it, what does that create? Energy: positive and negative, self-loathing.

Today's society wants to skip the process. And I hate that