My best teachers were not the ones who knew all the answers, but those who were deeply excited by questions they couldn't answer.

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?

You really don't want to be his/her first love. They need to have first fallen in love with Jesus.

A job is a temporary need

Most of our waking life is make believe. If there was a way to record every dream that crosses our minds, the true nature of humans would be laid bare

Renee: “Trout, get your mind out of the gutter.”Trout: “Can’t help it—it’s attached to my body.

Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.

People will speculate about what they want, but that is not my intention.

I love getting out of my comfort zone.

Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Hell is full of good intentions and wills.