If our species is to survive, our future will probably require outposts beyond our own planet.

We live at a very special time . . . the only time when we can observationally verify that we live at a very special time!

It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: you are all stardust.

The ultimate goal of physicists is to arrive at an equation that explains everything and could fit on a t-shirt. That may happen but the t-shirt would have to be 10-dimensional.

In this sense, science, as physicist Steven Weinberg has emphasized, does not make it impossible to believe in God, but rather makes it possible to not believe in God.

You are all stardust.

The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe is far more interesting than any of the fairy tales we have invented to describe it.