The brain rewards us for interacting with beautiful things. In this way, evolution wants to encourage us to do what is good for us..

Knowing how to calculate something is not the same as understanding it. Having a computer to calculate the origin of mass for us may be convincing, b….

In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you..

I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy-- of course, both those ideas are really the same idea..

Why is there something rather than nothing?.

Many of my heroes, like Galileo, Maxwell, Newton and, less explicitly, Einstein thought what they were doing was finding out what God is. All of them….

I believe that everything you've said is not even wrong..

In physics, your solution should convince a reasonable person. In math, you have to convince a person who's trying to make trouble. Ultimately, in ph….

An ordinary mistake is one that leads to a dead end, while a profound mistake is one that leads to progress. Anyone can make an ordinary mistake, but….

The answer to the ancient question Why is there something rather than nothing would be that nothingis unstable..

I'm convinced that art and science activate the same parts of the brain..

When religion talks about our aspirations and our sense of morality, I do not believe that science can contradict it. However, when religion contradi….

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake..