I played football and ran track in junior high, but by high school I was getting serious about my studies.

With something like Chernobyl, the public reaction was Oh, my God, science has really done wrong.

There is no doubt that a parallel exists between the big bang as an event and the Christian notion of creation from nothing.

The big bang, the most cataclysmic event we can imagine, on closer inspection appears finely orchestrated.

But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing — a universe that we humans, with our limited perspective, will someday understand.

I think we all want to know where we came from and how we fit into the world, but some of us need to know how it all works in great detail.

Both my parents instilled an interest in science and mathematics.

My name is George Smoot III, and I AM smarter than a fifth-grader.

But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing—a universe that we humans, with our limited perspective, will someday understand.

The discovery and investigation of life on other planets is likely to change many of our ideas about how life arose on the Earth and even what is life and its natural development.

Your calling connects with your passion.

I love who I am.

Turnstall's view of what men could and couldn't do was sometimes odd. Our old parter Goodwin and I agreed that there was no manly or unwomanly, only what you chose to do.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

As soon as I stopped trying to control everything that came out of my mouth and every picture that came out, that's when I became so much happier.

You are living in a dream of your own creation. Let it be the dream of a lifetime, for that is exactly what it is.

I learned how to fire a sniper rifle, which I'm sure will be useful at some point.

Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse.

I've been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I find something fresh in it every day.

Before anything can break your heart, it must first own your heart. Stop handing your heart to dunya-it'll stop breaking it.