I had this illusion that if I kind of dressed badly that I wouldn't stand out. You know, so I actually went out of my way to not look different to the extent I could.

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

Scientists actively approach the door to knowledge—the boundary of the domain of what we know. We question and explore and we change our views when facts and logic force us to do so. We are confident only in what we can verify through experiments or in what we can deduce from experimentally confirmed hypotheses.

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.

All the normal matter in the Milky Way disc is denser than the dark matter that surrounds it.

There is real confusion about what it means to be right and wrong - the difference between what spiritual beliefs are and what science is.

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