I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy-- of course, both those ideas are really the same idea.

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.

In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.

An ordinary mistake is one that leads to a dead end, while a profound mistake is one that leads to progress. Anyone can make an ordinary mistake, but it takes a genius to make a profound mistake.

The brain rewards us for interacting with beautiful things. In this way, evolution wants to encourage us to do what is good for us.

Why is there something rather than nothing?

I believe that everything you've said is not even wrong.

I'm convinced that art and science activate the same parts of the brain.

The answer to the ancient question Why is there something rather than nothing would be that nothingis unstable.

If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems

The answer to the ancient question 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' would then be that ‘nothing’ is unstable.

If you're not willing to sound stupid you don't deserve to be in love.

There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else.

As you develop, the people around you develop. As you progress, the world progresses with you to a certain degree.

Miami is one of the great cultural melting pots in the world. I love working and living here.

I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started

In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: No, no, no. You have to write a book with your husband.

If each one of us starts thinking, learning, and understanding more about water and the fact that we are water-based ourselves, then we can start to love, thank, and respect water in our daily lives.

You have to look good when you are riding, you have to impress your adversary with your elegance. To look good is already to go fast.

Though shyness per se was unacceptable, reserve was a mark of good breeding.

I'm doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It's my first LA theater project.