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

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.

It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.

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'm not creating the universe. I'm creating a model of the universe, which may or may not be true.

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

Although I was first drawn to math and science by the certainty they promised, today I find the unanswered questions and the unexpected connections at least as attractive.