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.

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.

People are interested in science, but they don't always know they're interested in science, and so I try to find a way to get them interested.

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.

The universe is the way it is, whether we like it or not.

Empirical explorations ultimately change our understanding of which questions are important and fruitful and which are not.

We all trust each other to some extent. We have to rely on experts to some extent, but we should learn to be sceptical.