Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress.

We should figure out how to do this so that some parents don't feel disenfranchised, angry and upset. It says a lot about the state of where we are in the city, the role of parents and the reality of small school and combining schools.

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

When it comes to the world around us, is there any choice but to explore?

One of the nice things about math and science is it’s obvious, you get the answer or you don’t get the answer.

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.

Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries - the arts and humanities.