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Gravity is matter’s sugar daddy.
Energy is the ultimate convertable currency.
Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty.
Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored.
Experimental evidence is the final arbiter of right and wrong.
We might be the holographic image of a two-dimensional structure.
Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding.
The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics.
It's hard to teach passionately about something that you don't have a passion for.
When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my 'Theorem'.
I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.
No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.
I've seen children's eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang.
I'd say many features of string theory don't mesh with what we observe in everyday life.
Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.
I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science.
All you are is a bag of particles acting out the laws of physics. That to me is pretty clear.
When you know the answer you want, it is often all too easy to figure out a way of getting it.
If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake.
I like 'The Simpsons' quite a lot. I love the irreverent character of the whole show. It's great.
...things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to notice.
How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?
The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.
...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance.
The idea that there could be other universes out there is really one that stretches the mind in a great way.
Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.
I may be a Jewish scientist, but I would be tickled silly if one day I were reincarnated as a Baptist preacher.
For me it's been very exciting to contribute to the public's understanding of how rich and wondrous science is.
There may have been many big bangs, one of which created our universe. The other bangs created other universes.
You should never be surprised by or feel the need to explain why any physical system is in a high entropy state.
One of the wonders of science is that it is completely universal. It crosses national boundaries with total ease.
I can't stand clutter. I can't stand piles of stuff. And whenever I see it, I basically just throw the stuff away.
Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
I’ve spent something like 17 years working on a theory for which there is essentially no direct experimental support.
I do feel strongly that string theory is our best hope for making progress at unifying gravity and quantum mechanics.
We know that if supersymmetric particles exist, they must be very heavy; otherwise we would have spotted them by now.
Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.
Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct.
What makes a Beethoven symphony spectacular, what makes a Brahms rhapsody spectacular is that the patterns are wondrous.
Our eyes only see the big dimensions, but beyond those there are others that escape detection because they are so small.
A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.
When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level
Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.
My best teachers were not the ones who knew all the answers, but those who were deeply excited by questions they couldn't answer.
I think the appropriate response for a physicist is: 'I do not find the concept of God very interesting, because I cannot test it.'
My view is that science only has something to say about a very particular notion of God, which goes by the name of 'god of the gaps'.
The pinpoints of starlight we see with the naked eye are photons that have been streaming toward us for a few years or a few thousand.
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.
Falsifiability for a theory is great, but a theory can still be respectable even if it is not falsifiable, as long as it is verifiable.
Assessing existence while failing to embrace the insights of modern physics would be like wrestling in the dark with an unknown opponent.