Secrets of the cosmos will begin to unravel. I, for one, can't wait.

When people try to use religion to address the natural world, science pushes back on it, and religion has to accommodate the results. Beliefs can be permanent, but beliefs can also be flexible. Personally, if I find out my belief is wrong, I change my mind. I think that's a good way to live.

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

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

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

Both religions and musicals work best with energetic and committed believers. Cynicism or detachment would have destroyed the magic - something true of religion, too.

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.