Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.

The world has changed far more in the past 100 years than in any other century in history. The reason is not political or economic but technological-technologies that flowed directly from advances in basic science. Clearly, no scientist better represents those advances than Albert Einstein: TIME's Person of the Century.

When I get to heaven I'm gonna find the guy in charge of the weather and kick his rear.

Love the neighbor. But don't get caught.

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations.

So great a contribution to physics was Two New Sciences that scholars have long maintained that the book anticipated Isaac Newton's laws of motion.

Only time - whatever that may be - will tell.