My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

Over a very small number of rolls of the dice, the uncertainty principle is very important.

We are only the temporary custodians of the particles which we are made of. They will go on to lead a future existence in the enormous universe that made them

I want my books sold on airport bookstalls.

Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four.

I like physics, but I love cartoons.

Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this.