It is positively spooky how the physicist finds the mathematician has been there before him or her.

Journalists generally have no bias toward one cosmological theory or another, but many have a natural preference for excitement.

As for me, I have just enough confidence about the multiverse to bet the lives of both Andrei Linde and Martin Rees’s dog.

Elementary particles are terribly boring, which is one reason why we're so interested in them.

Our mistake is not that we take our theories too seriously, but that we do not take them seriously enough.

Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.

Though aware that there is nothing in the universe that suggests any purpose for humanity, one way that we can find a purpose is to study the universe by the methods of science, without consoling ourselves with fairy tales about its future, or about our own.