The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.

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?

Please do not ever think I am without you or you are without me, I live with you all the time.

About 90 percent of the downtime comes from, at most, 10 percent of the defects.

Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.

I just want to work with people, so I always try to find a way to collaborate in the best way for the music.

Wars of small kingdoms and forgotten lands, what do chessmen dream of in the dark?

Your life's work is something you love to do, something your talents can find full expression through. If we enjoy our work, we are sure to bring our creativity and enthusiasm to it.

TV is just advertising for your live gig, so I'm playing whichever show is gonna get me the biggest crowd.

We have the freedom to either play a tempo or not to play a tempo; to play a note or not to play a note; or to play what some people would say is a sound.

I read a lot of books. So, usually when I go home I try to re-charge my batteries and absorb new stories to become inspired again.

Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less.