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

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.

Those who do not stop asking silly questions become scientists.

Democritus's work on the void was revolutionary.

During an intense period of lab work, the outside world vanishes and the obsession is total. Sleep is when you can curl up on the accelerator floor for an hour.

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

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.