The science window gives you a view of the world, and the religion window gives you a totally different view. You can't look at both of them at the same time, but they're both true.

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.

The universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.

We won't really understand the brain until we can make models of it which are analog rather than digital, which nobody seems to be trying very much.

The average ground temperature of the Earth is impossible to measure since most of the Earth is ocean...So this average ground temperature is a fiction.

Everything in my life was luck. The key to having an interesting life is to always say "yes" to anything crazy.

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