I considered going into business or becoming a lawyer - not for the money, but for the thrill of problem-solving.

We certainly don't yet know all the answers. But the universe is about to be pried open.

An almost indispensable skill for any creative person is the ability to pose the right questions. Creative people identify promising, exciting, and, most important, accessible routes to progress - and eventually formulate the questions correctly.

Probably if you look like Tyra Banks, it probably is hard, even if you are really smart, for people to take - it surprises some.

I think it's a problem that people are considered immoral if they're not religious. That's just not true. If you do something for a religious reason, you do it because you'll be rewarded in an afterlife or in this world. That's not quite as good as something you do for purely generous reasons.

Science is a combination of theory and experiment and the two together are how you make progress.

It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.