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

Physicists have yet to understand why the Higgs boson's mass is what it is.

Travel at faster than the speed of light certainly can have dramatic implications that are difficult to understand, such as time travel.

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

When I was in school I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective.

If such external influences are intrinsic to religion, then logic and scientific thought dictate that there must be a mechanism by which this influence is transmitted. A religious or spiritual belief that involves an invisible undetectable force that nonetheless influences human actions and behavior or that of the world itself produces a situation in which a believer has no choice but to have faith and abandon logic--or simply not care.

Basically, I wasn't properly socialized, so it made sense to do physics.