The mathematics of quantum mechanics very accurately describes how our universe works. And it tells us our reality is continually branching into different possibilities, just like a coral.

I think the universe is pure geometry - basically, a beautiful shape twisting around and dancing over space-time.

You cannot think when you're ecstatic.

Everything that can happen, does. That's quantum mechanics. But this does not mean everything happens. The rest of physics is about describing what can happen and what can't.

There are a lot of good things about string theory, and it's great that some people want to work on it.

Yeah, I am a guy working on physics outside of academia. But I'm nowhere near Einstein's caliber.

Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them.

Science is our last and greatest frontier.

Ninety-five per cent of my time is virtually wasted.

Coral is a very beautiful and unusual animal. Each coral head consists of thousand of individual polyps. These polyps are continually budding and branching into genetically identical neighbors.

What physics tells us is that everything comes down to geometry and the interactions of elementary particles. And things can happen only if these interactions are perfectly balanced.

The point of living in the world is just to stay interested.

Choose your path or others may choose it for you.

There is light in my soul.

Religious faith indeed relates to that which is above us but it must arise from that which is within us.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

Your station is in my heart, and on the necks of those who would insult you.

He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.

If everyone is mature, there is no comedy.

I'm a perfectionist, so I always feel there's room for improvement.

Pity drowns in numbers.