I may be a Jewish scientist, but I would be tickled silly if one day I were reincarnated as a Baptist preacher.

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 messy house is a must - it separates your true friends from other friends.Real friends are there to visit you not your house!

I read the 'Times' and 'Post,' but I have nothing against the 'Daily News.' I also fish around the Internet for entertainment news but find most of what I read to be untrue or partially true.

You can't be a good writer without being a good thinker.

I have always been one to encourage perseverance.

Now who is the king of these lewd, ludicrous, lucrative lyrics; who could inherit the title, to put the youth in hysterics; using his music as spirit

I'm glad I am crazy, it keeps me trying. I despise trendies, I know they're lying.

During the summertime, I really like to dress like a gypsy. I love that whole lifestyle and the whole mixing of fabrics and flowy materials.

The pharmaceutical corporations are engaged in the systematic corruption of the medical profession, country by country

In the U.S. Senate, in the short term we need to reduce the tax burden on hard working individuals, families, and small businesses.

We are perhaps not far removed from the time when we shall be able to submit the bulk of chemical phenomena to calculation.