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.

All the normal matter in the Milky Way disc is denser than the dark matter that surrounds it.

Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.

If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work, you're a failure. And if it does work, you may be stuck for who knows how long. It just doesn't sound great to me!

I am proud of the campaign that we ran. Obviously, I wish we could have done a little bit better.

But it is a pipe." "No, it's not," I said. It's a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. It's very clever.

I take all of my life lessons, which some people might call 'mistakes,' and apply them to my future so that I keep growing.

One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s!

The Democrats smell blood and don't want to be told that it's their own.

He is not rich, that enjoyeth not his own goods.

But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus.

I've always been just as interested in making people think as I am in making them feel, and one of the things this scientific process allows me to do is make the audience look differently at dance.