In physics, opinions don't matter, only demonstrated experiments. The day the fellow succeeds, if ever, he won't need anybody else's opinion.

I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.

When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually it's the beginning of time.

I see myself in pop culture. I listen to pop music, I do pop things, and I'm also a scientist.

The past is another planet.

Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities, embrace the meaning of what it is to be scientifically literate. They embrace the concept of an innovation culture. They vote in ways that promote it. They don't fight science and they don't fight technology.

To get an Emmy nomination for a show that was the first-ever science talk show on television to us was an affirmation that there is an appetite for this content in the mainstream public, not just the erudite public. So we're all completely thrilled by it.