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.

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

Black holes, we all know, are these regions where if an object falls in, it can't get out, but the puzzle that many struggled with over the decades is, what happens to the information that an object contains when it falls into a black hole. Is it simply lost?

I like 'The Simpsons' quite a lot. I love the irreverent character of the whole show. It's great.

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.

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

There's no way that scientists can ever rule out religion, or even have anything significant to say about the abstract idea of a divine creator.