The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.

No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.

A clone of Einstein wouldn't be stupid, but he wouldn't necessarily be any genius, either.

Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.

I'm basically a libertarian. I don't want to restrict anyone from doing anything unless it's going to harm me. I don't want [to] pass a law stopping someone from smoking. It's just too dangerous. You lose the concept of a free society. Since we are genetically so diverse and our brains are so different, we're going to have different aspirations.

People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.

The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.