I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science.

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?

It's hard to get enough of something that almost works.

Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.

When success turns a man's head he faces failure

People are tired of seeing politicians as all talk and no action.

Those who are quiet will always cause riots.

Elphaba looked like something between an animal and an Animal, like something more than life but not quite Life.

One cannot quite trust the word of potted flowers," thought the butterfly; "they have too much to do with men.

Liberal and conservative have lost their meaning in America. I represent the distracted center.

If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?

The good agent probably is not the reader, he's just the guy who can put together a deal.