You can always recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity.

As revealed by physics, the truth is so remarkable, so amazing!

Agnostic for me would be trying to weasel out and sound a little nicer than I am about this.

The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination in a straightjacket, which is this: that it has to agree with the known laws of physics. ... It requires imagination to think of what's possible, and then it requires an analysis back, checking to see whether it fits, whether its allowed, according to what's known, okay?

I have a limited intelligence and I've used it in a particular direction.

The work I have done has, already, been adequately rewarded and recognized. Imagination reaches out repeatedly trying to achieve some higher level of understanding, until suddenly I find myself momentarily alone before one new corner of nature's pattern of beauty and true majesty revealed. That was my reward.

The problem of creating something new, but which is consistent with everything which has been seen before, is one of extreme difficulty.