In my own research when I'm working with equations, I never feel like I really understand what I'm doing if I'm solely relying on the mathematics for my understanding. I need to have a visual picture in my mind. I'm constantly translating from the math to some intuitive mind's-eye picture.

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

The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution.

Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon.

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

The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.

We might be the holographic image of a two-dimensional structure.