That's the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we do understand.

The ground of science was littered with the corpses of dead unified theories.

The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible.

There is no way to find the best design except to try out as many designs as possible and discard the failures.

Climate change is part of the normal order of things, and we know it was happening before humans came.

I think the biggest misconception about mathematics is that everybody has to learn it. That seems to be a complete mistake. All the time worrying about pushing the children and getting them to be mathematically literate and all that stuff. It's terribly hard on the kids. It's also hard on the teachers. And I think it's totally useless. To me, mathematics is like playing the violin. Some people can do it - others can't. If you don't have it, then there's no point in pretending.

You could say science also is an art.