Planets are too dim to be detected with existing equipment, far away, except in these very special circumstances where they're seen by their gravitational effect

We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game.

One thing that makes the adventure of working in our field particularly rewarding, especially in attempting to improve the theory, is that... a chief criterion for the selection of a correct hypothesis... seems to be the criterion of beauty, simplicity, or elegance.

Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital.

So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history

Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties

I do not keep up with the details of particle physics.