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

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.

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

It’s the beauty that helps us return from the harshness. If it wasn’t there, we would have nothing to live for.

There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.

You can talk so much. The proof is how you compete to the guy next to you and if a guy makes a mistake, you've got to be there to pick him up and not put him down.

There is no respect between the souls of two individuals if their minds can’t trust each other and there is no trust between them if their hearts can’t accept the truth of each other.

Another foundational truth is that God has a plan for history. History is providential, not accidental.

Boxing is just show business with blood.

The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.

Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history.

A year. We'd known each other only a year, but we'd lived a lifetime in it.

The common perception is it only happens to people who aren't paying attention.