In any finite region of space, matter can only arrange itself in a finite number of configurations, just as a deck of cards can be arranged in only finitely many different orders. If you shuffle the deck infinitely many times, the card orderings must necessarily repeat.

We might be the holographic image of a two-dimensional structure.

One of the wonders of science is that it is completely universal. It crosses national boundaries with total ease.

No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.

The fact that I don't have any particular need for religion doesn't mean that I have a need to cast religion aside the way some of my colleagues do.

The absolute worst thing that you ever can do, in my opinion, in bringing science to the general public, is be condescending or judgmental. It is so opposite to the way science needs to be brought forth.

Experimental evidence is the final arbiter of right and wrong.