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

Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.

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

If string theory is right, the microscopic fabric of our universe is a richly intertwined multidimensional labyrinth within which the strings of the universe endlessly twist and vibrate, rhythmically beating out the laws of the cosmos.

The idea that there could be other universes out there is really one that stretches the mind in a great way.

Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding.

Time allows change to take place and the very evolution of the universe is what requires some conception of time. Mathematically can we write down a universe that doesn't have time? Sure. Do we think that would be realised in the larger reality that is out there? None of us take that possibility seriously.