Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored.

When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my 'Theorem'.

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.

I've seen children's eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang.

There's a picture of my dorm room in the college yearbook as the most messy, most disgusting room on the Harvard campus, where I was an undergraduate.

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

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.