When you know the answer you want, it is often all too easy to figure out a way of getting it.

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?

Even after she was gone, he passed her place each day: something white in a high window - not a face, but the white belly of a pigeon beating its wingsagainst the pane in the boarded-up house.

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.

People will always say all sorts of stuff. Let them. I'm enjoying my life

We deliberate not about ends, but about means.

I spit upon luxurious pleasures, not for their own sake, but because of the inconveniences that follow them.

I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.

We have to find a new balance; otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the Gospel.

One does not consider style, because style is.

I just try to touch people's hearts in a way through skating, so they're not just witnessing a performance, they're feeling a performance and they're a part of it.

The person who did most to give to analysis the generality and symmetry which are now its pride, was also the person who made mechanics analytical; I mean Euler.