I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.

It seems that we're better at finding someone to blame for our problems than we are at finding creative solutions to fix them.

What's up with chicks and science?

Any astrophysicist does not feel small looking up at the universe; we feel large.

When I would lose matches, I fully respected the person who beat me, because they beat me. I can't blame anybody.

I'm not as famous as Stephen Hawking, but certainly in the U.S., I have a very high profile for a scientist. It is an awesome responsibility, one that I don't shoulder lightly.

To the scientist, the universality of physical laws makes the cosmos a marvelously simple place. By comparison, human nature-the psychologist's domain-is infinitely more daunting.