We have simply arrived too late in the history of the universe to see this primordial simplicity easily... But although the symmetries are hidden from us, we can sense that they are latent in nature, governing everything about us. That's the most exciting idea I know: that nature is much simpler than it looks. Nothing makes me more hopeful that our generation of human beings may actually hold the key to the universe in our hands - that perhaps in our lifetimes we may be able to tell why all of what we see in this immense universe of galaxies and particles is logically inevitable.

Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally.

The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.

The more we refine our understanding of God to make the concept plausible, the more it seems pointless.

The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.

It does not help that some politicians and journalists assume the public is interested only in those aspects of science that promise immediate practical applications to technology or medicine.

If (the antiproton) had not been discovered, the foundations of physics really would have crumbled.