You might find it hard to imagine gravity as a weak force, but consider that a small magnet can hold up a paper clip, even though the entire earth is pulling down on it.

Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries - the arts and humanities.

It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.

Basically, I wasn't properly socialized, so it made sense to do physics.

When it comes to the world around us, is there any choice but to explore?

One of the nice things about math and science is it’s obvious, you get the answer or you don’t get the answer.

Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress.

Sometimes models are surprisingly smart.

Travel at faster than the speed of light certainly can have dramatic implications that are difficult to understand, such as time travel.

I did not set out to explain the extinction of the dinosaurs. I'm a particle physicist, and I was actually thinking about dark matter along with some collaborators.

Science is a combination of theory and experiment and the two together are how you make progress.

God reigns from the deepest depths to the highest heights.

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

Falling in love is a crazy thing to do. It's kind of like a form of socially acceptable insanity.

My sister Kwan believes she has yin eyes. She sees those who have died and now dwell in the world of Yin, ghosts who leave the mists just to visit her kitchen on Balboa Street in San Francisco.

The thing that drives me more than anything else is being a father.

You are not invisible to your Heavenly Father. He loves you.

Sense will always have attractions for me.

We have plenty of money to do everything we want to do, if we do it smart.

If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, you become something else entirely.

Well, as everyone knows, once witchcraft gets started, there's no stopping it.