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

I'm so old I can remember when the Dead Sea was only sick.

Theorists tend to peak at an early age; the creative juices tend to gush very early and start drying up past the age of fifteen-or so it seems. They need to know just enough; when they're young they haven't accumulated the intellectual baggage.

One of the major ingredients for professional success in science is luck. Without this, forget it.

Experimenters don’t come in late—they never went home.

We hope to explain the entire universe in a single, simple formula that you can wear on your T-shirt.

The British philosopher Bertrand Russell said that philosophy went downhill after Democritus and did not recover until the Renaissance.