One of the nice things about math and science is it’s obvious, you get the answer or you don’t get the answer.

Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries - the arts and humanities.

It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.

Basically, I wasn't properly socialized, so it made sense to do physics.

When it comes to the world around us, is there any choice but to explore?

Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress.

Sometimes models are surprisingly smart.

Travel at faster than the speed of light certainly can have dramatic implications that are difficult to understand, such as time travel.

I did not set out to explain the extinction of the dinosaurs. I'm a particle physicist, and I was actually thinking about dark matter along with some collaborators.

Science is a combination of theory and experiment and the two together are how you make progress.

All the normal matter in the Milky Way disc is denser than the dark matter that surrounds it.

Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone.

Education is not a tool for development - individual, community and the nation. It is the foundation for our future. It is empowerment to make choices and emboldens the youth to chase their dreams.

When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.

Usually I'm not really conscious of what's going on. I don't have a lot of memories onstage. At all.

My heart is so intoxicated with love that I have no wish to speak.

Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him.

Throughout [Barack] Obama's career, he promised to limit the state secrets doctrine which the Bush-Cheney administration had abused enormously.

That's to me what always is compelling about villains. I am much more interested in how they think than in what they even do.

Whether two birds of a feather fly or fall, it'll be together.

Don't believe everything you see on VH1.