I like 'The Simpsons' quite a lot. I love the irreverent character of the whole show. It's great.

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?

You should never be surprised by or feel the need to explain why any physical system is in a high entropy state.

If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake.

Einstein comes along and says, space and time can warp and curve, that's what gravity is. Now string theory comes along and says, yes, gravity, quantum mechanics, electromagnetism - all together in one package, but only if the universe has more dimensions than the ones that we see.

Energy is the ultimate convertable currency.

Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.