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

You can be only a modest distance away from the gravity brane, and gravity will be incredibly weak.

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

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.

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.

I did not set out to explain the extinction of the dinosaurs. I'm a particle physicist, and I was actually thinking about dark matter along with some collaborators.

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