We might be the holographic image of a two-dimensional structure.

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?

We never live

Tell me, what's the difference between tracking a wild beast and securing a husband?

Every pain is a lesson.

I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.

More than the act of testing, the act of designing tests is one of the best bug preventers known.

My dad, who plays guitar and piano and was in cover bands, along with my older brother, Matt, taught me guitar and stuff. I started writing acoustic songs and playing by myself in 7th grade.

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.

Children are to be welcomed, cherished, protected.

Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.