I would hope that the publicity around the Higgs boson would increase the public awareness of physics and cosmology.

All kids are born geniuses, but are crushed by society.

What is the universe? The universe is a symphony of vibrating strings...we are nothing but melodies. We are nothing but cosmic music played out on vibrating strings and membranes.

The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe.

If you could meet your grandkids as elderly citizens in the year 2100 … you would view them as being, basically, Greek gods… that's where we're headed.

It's pointless to have a nice clean desk, because it means you're not doing anything.

Music is the voice of God traveling through ten-dimensional hyperspace.

What do oil company executives, vampires and NASA bureaucrats all have in common? They fear solar energy.

Common sense has no place in Quantum Mechanics.

I believe we exist in a multiverse of universes.

We have the media, which is such a waste in the sense that you can actually feel your IQ get lower as you watch TV.

Writer: It's not an occupation it's a compulsion.

God will provide - if only God would provide until he provides.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

The power of Hollywood, as we know, is that it can create these images in people's minds, and they live with those images for their whole life.

We often add to our pain and suffering by being overly sensitive, over-reacting to minor things, and sometimes taking things too personally.

Curst is the wretch enslaved to such a vice, Who ventures life and soul upon the dice.

Old age is a powerful disguise.

We need to ensure the poorest in the planet - who will be hardest hit by the financial crisis - are not forgotten.

I'll take anyway to get into the Hall of Fame. If they want a batboy, I'll go in as a batboy.

Fool indeed is he, who, living on the banks of the Ganga, digs a little well for water. Fool indeed is the man who, coming to a mine of diamonds, begins to search for glass beads.