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.

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.

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?

Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon.

I'm a terrible prince. I should put my kingdom first and everything else second, but your first. I want you by my side every second, but I know I would crumble if I lost you.

I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd.

When you seek first to develop relationships based on personal and human ground, you will surely gain interest of another party.

Man is constantly being assured today that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness.

You cannot pray for someone and hate them at the same time.

Those who look outside, dream. Those who look inside, awaken.

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

Advice to anglers: don't take advice from people with missing fingers.

You can’t depend on special teams touchdowns and blocked punts every week to win.

The world was never more unsafe for democracy then it is today.