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

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

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?

So: if you buy the notion that reality consists of the things in your freeze-frame mental image right now, and if you agree that your now is no more valid than the now of someone located far away in space who can move freely, then reality encompasses all of the events in spacetime.

I can't stand clutter. I can't stand piles of stuff. And whenever I see it, I basically just throw the stuff away.

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

Gravity is matter’s sugar daddy.