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

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

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.

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition

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

For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.