To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational.

When two's company, three's the result!

There are plenty of dead scientists I admire, but I can't think of any living ones. This is probably because it is only in retrospect that one can see who made the important contributions.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

A model is a good model if first it interprets a wide range of observations in terms of a simple and elegant model, and second if the model makes definite predictions that can be tested, and possibly falsified, by observation.

I’m the archetype of a disabled genius, or should I say a physically challenged genius, to be politically correct. At least I’m obviously physically challenged. Whether I’m a genius is more open to doubt.

Scientific discovery may not be better than sex, but the satisfaction lasts longer.