Democritus's work on the void was revolutionary.

My children have often asked me why I never received a Nobel Prize. I used to tell them it was because the Nobel committee couldn’t make up its mind which of my projects to recognize.

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

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

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

The sequence of theorist, experimenter, and discovery has occasionally been compared to the sequence of farmer, pig, truffle. The farmer leads the pig to an area where there might be truffles. The pig searches diligently for the truffles. Finally, he locates one, and just as he is about to devour it, the farmer snatches it away.

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