Cosmology is among the oldest subjects to captivate our species. And it’s no wonder. We’re storytellers, and what could be more grand than the story of creation?

Writing for the stage is different from writing for a book. You want to write in a way that an actor has material to work with, writing in the first person not the third person, and pulling out the dramatic elements in a bigger way for a stage presentation.

When you buy a jacket, you pick the size to ensure it fits. Similarly, we live in a universe in which the amount of dark energy fits our biological make-up. If the amount of dark energy were substantially different from what we've measured, the environmental conditions would be inhospitable to our form of life.

I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science.

The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge.

When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level

The idea that there could be other universes out there is really one that stretches the mind in a great way.