What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant.

Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.

Modern education is like being taken to the world's greatest restaurant & being forced to eat the menu.

The world of the quark has everything to do with a jaguar circling in the night.

If someone says that he can think or talk about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows only that he has not understood anything whatever about it.

Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital.

Everything that is not forbidden is compulsory.

Niels Bohr brainwashed a whole generation of theorists into thinking that the job (interpreting quantum theory) was done 50 years ago.

You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars

Both biological and cultural diversity are now severely threatened and working for their preservation is a critical task.

I would recommend that skeptics devote even more effort than they do now to understanding the reasons why so many people want or need to believe.

God dances with the outcast.

Nostalgia is the only friend that stays with you forever.

Strong professional communities risk and sometimes relish conflict.

I don't have any exteriors that would actually put me into some kind of different air that would actually intimidate somebody to stay away from me.

Long, long ago, before eruptions were invented, the molten lava had to be carried down the mountainside, bucket by bucket, and poured over the sleeping villagers. This took time.

I always feel a rise in my scalp or in the backs of my wrists when something is special, whether it be a song or a man.

According to his dad's journal, vampires had been through some of the worst epidemics in history. And apparently, during the days of the Black Plague, their biggest complaint had been rotten "food".

Atlanta's my musical home. It really was the place where I really came alive.

I have followed my heart my whole life - the crazy kid, a contrarian by nature, and I've been in trouble in points in my career.

He was silent for a moment, staring out the window into the rain; I imagined he was contemplating the fact that his family's presence was turning the locals into giant dogs.