Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored.

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

We're on this planet for the briefest of moments in cosmic terms, and I want to spend that time thinking about what I consider the deepest questions.

The pinpoints of starlight we see with the naked eye are photons that have been streaming toward us for a few years or a few thousand.

All mathematics is is a language that is well tuned, finely honed, to describe patterns; be it patterns in a star, which has five points that are regularly arranged, be it patterns in numbers like 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 that follow very regular progression.

Experimental evidence is the final arbiter of right and wrong.

But if you think about a practical implication of enriching your life and giving you a sense of being part of a larger cosmos and possibly being able to use this [gravitational waves] as a tool in the future maybe to listen not just to black holes colliding, but maybe listen to the big bang itself, those kind of applications may happen in the not too distant future.