My advice is to go for the messes - that's where the action is.

The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups.

A theorist today is hardly considered respectable if he or she has not introduced at least one new particle for which there is no experimental evidence.

It appears that anything you say about the way that theory and experiment may interact is likely to be correct, and anything you say about the way that theory and experiment must interact is likely to be wrong.

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.

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

Any possible universe could be explained as the work of some sort of designer. Even a universe that is completely chaotic...could be supposed to have been designed by an idiot.