While their methods differ radically, artists and physicists share the desire to investigate the ways the interlocking pieces of reality fit together. This is the common ground upon which they meet.

When the time comes to change a paradigm--to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another--the artist and physicist are most likely to be in the forefront.

Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.

It is the bane and the balm of individual perception that 'objective' reality is seen through the filter of each person's temperament.

Language was such a profoundly new evolutionary innovation that our brains had to be completely redesigned in order to handle it.

Despite tribulation, distress, famine, peril, and sword, God had allowed them all to emerge as conquerors.

People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.

Man seems not so much wicked as frail, unable to face pain, trouble and growing old. A good woman knows that nature is her enemy. Look at what it does to her.

You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches.

Preferences are bad solutions to performance problems.

I wonder whether she was sorry for leaving us behind.

And I think for me theres a lot of neurosis involved with where you should be or thinking about where you are all the time instead of being where you are.

It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.

The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies.

I bought an ant farm. I don't know where I am going to get a tractor that small!