You have to say now that space is something. Space can vibrate, space can fluctuate, space can be quantum mechanical, but what the devil is it?

Einstein, in the special theory of relativity, proved that different observers, in different states of motion, see different realities.

Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.

[Richard Feynman] truly believed that if you couldn't explain something simply, you didn't understand it.

I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends were plumbers. They were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City and had to go to work when they were 12 or 13 years old.

Science blogs bore me. When everyone is an expert, no one is an expert.

Every time a bit of information is erased, we know it doesn't disappear. It goes out into the environment. It may be horribly scrambled and confused, but it never really gets lost. It's just converted into a different form.