Theorists write all the popular books on science: Heinz Pagels, Frank Wilczek, Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, et al. And why not? They have all that spare time.

Theorists write all the popular books on science: Heinz Pagels, Frank Wilczek, Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, et al. And why not? They have all that spare time.

The real goal of physics is to come up with an equation that could explain the universe but still be small enough to fit on a T-shirt

Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.

Neutrinos ... win the minimalist contest: zero charge, zero radius, and very possibly zero mass.

By the grace of AEC, BNL, God, Green and Hayworth (alphabetical order), we should see neutrinos.

The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number of laws governing a small number of primordial objects.