A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen how to understand some difficult scientific idea.

A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen how to understand some difficult scientific idea.

I was going to engineering school but fell in love with physics.

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

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.

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.