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

Science should have no less lofty a goal. My ambition is to live to see all of physics reduced to a formula so elegant and simple that it will fit easily on the front of a T-shirt.

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

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

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

I sometimes think about the tower at Pisa as the first particle accelerator, a (nearly) vertical linear accelerator that Galileo used in his studies.

The aether: Invented by Isaac Newton, reinvented by James Clerk Maxwell. This is the stuff that fills up the empty space of the universe. Discredited and discarded by Einstein, the aether is now making a Nixonian comeback. It's really the vacuum, but burdened by theoretical, ghostly particles.