When religion talks about our aspirations and our sense of morality, I do not believe that science can contradict it. However, when religion contradicts science on matters of fact, religion must yield.

I'm convinced that art and science activate the same parts of the brain.

The answer to the ancient question Why is there something rather than nothing would be that nothingis unstable.

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.

I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy-- of course, both those ideas are really the same idea.

Many of my heroes, like Galileo, Maxwell, Newton and, less explicitly, Einstein thought what they were doing was finding out what God is. All of them had this inspiration that if you want to find out what God is, you have to look at his work.

When religion talks about our aspirations and our sense of morality, I do not believe that science can contradict it. However, when religion contradicts science on matters of fact, religion must yield.