When I was in school I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective.

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.

God needs are in the needs of people

Never stick your tongue out at someone you can't lick.

Forget I ever referred to my mother and screwing in the same sentence. That's just .... wrong. On so many levels.

That sovereign of insufferables.

I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together.

A stunner…reminds me of Tom Clancy at his finest.

Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends.

And then the witness, if you go down into the witness, that has the spiritual being. Down there, in your soul, you'll get far more love than you ever got out there.

I'm a really, really, smart, multi-talented almost-genius, who's very annoying.