Things are always more complicated than most people believe.

For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source of concepts and principles by means of which new theories can be created.

Nothing is boring if you look at carefully.

Boiled down to one sentence, my message is the unboundedness of life and the unboundedness of human destiny.

Just because you see pictures of glaciers falling into the ocean doesn't mean anything bad is happening. This is something that happens all the time. It's part of the natural cycle of things. We know from measurements that glaciers have been melting for 200 years at least.

And somehow mother nature manages to create this incredible biosphere, to create this incredibly rich environment of animals and plants with this amazingly small amount of data.

The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines.