Nothing can create something all the time due to the laws of quantum mechanics, and it's - it's fascinatingly interesting.

A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa.

I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false.

Teaching and writing, to me, is really just seduction; you go to where people are and you find something that they're interested in and you try and use that to convince them that they should be interested in what you have to say.

At the heart of quantum mechanics is a rule that sometimes governs politicians or CEOs-as long as no one is watching, anything goes.

There is a maxim about the universe which I always tell my students: That which is not explicitly forbidden is guaranteed to occur.

Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner we are without it, the better.