Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.

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

The universe is incredibly wondrous, incredibly beautiful, and it fills me with a sense that there is some underlying explanation that we have yet to fully understand. If someone wants to place the word 'God' on those collections of words, it's OK with me.

Far from being accidental details, the properties of nature's basic building blocks are deeply entwined with the fabric of space and time.

Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.

Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.

It's hard to teach passionately about something that you don't have a passion for.