There is nothing outside the universe.

Having begun my life in science searching for the equation beyond time, I now believe that the deepest secret of the universe is that its essence rests in how it unfolds moment by moment in time.

One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself.

Deep, persistent problems are never solved by accident; they are solved only by people who are obsessed with them and set out to solve them directly.

Surprise is inherent in the structure of the world.

On the way, I shared the backseat of Feyerabend's little sports car with the inflatable raft he kept there in case an 8-point earthquake came while he was on the Bay Bridge.

Some string theorists prefer to believe that string theory is too arcane to be understood by human beings, rather than consider the possibility that it might just be wrong.

Science is not about what's true or what might be true, science is about what people with originally diverse viewpoints can be forced to believe by the weight of public evidence.

Simplicity and beauty are the signs not of truth but of a well-constructed approximate model of a limited domain of phenomena.

Any two particles in the universe attract each other through the gravitational interaction.

We know no more than we did in 1975 - and that's not good

As ever in the family Goodman, someone would have to swallow feelings here, and it was easier that it be Mercer.

Each morning puts man on trial and each evening passes judgement.

In a shared fish, there are no bones.

Often the answer to our prayer does not come while we're on our knees, but while we're on our feet serving the Lord and serving those around us.

I like the idea of it as a trickster motif. You know like you're kind of just messing around with people's memories of songs.

What can be the dharma at one point in your life can totally reverse itself, and suddenly you might be doing something the opposite or something very new, something you never considered.

Great actors who I want to work with-have such a misconception of who I am because of all the things that get said about me.

The possibilities of existence run so deeply into the extravagant that there is scarcely any conception too extraordinary for Nature to realise.

The president may be a nice guy, but he's just over his head.

Often it is a moment rather than an event that makes a poem.