... things are the way they are in our universe because if they Weren't, we would not be here to notice.

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?

A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed.

I am determined to do my very best.

Love is a disease – ultimately you get sick of each other

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.

When you love something, you have to make sure it loves you back, or you'll bring about no end of trouble chasing it.

The preachers commission is to declare the whole counsel of God; but the cross is the center of that counsel.

Moral judgment is not life-giving; love that transcends the boundaries of judgment as Jesus' love did, is.

It's some chopped liver. That's Jewish soul food.

The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.

I didn't do well in high school, but I took photography, and I loved being able to capture moments.