I've always felt that copious use of the word 'something' allows anyone to solve any problem, even insoluble ones..

Thinking can be lateral or "sweaty". For the latter you're better off in an office and following a routine but for the former you have to be "out of ….

My diary entries during this period constantly refer to the importance of learning how to take criticism. If you shut yourself in your own little wor….

...it's the process of losing oneself in the jungle that makes science worth doing..

For instance, the blood of hibernating arctic squirrels may supercool to minus 3 degrees, when it would normally congeal. The supercooled blood still….

Inflation is really like drugging the baby universe with speed. The supercool union of the hitherto unfriendly gods was blessed by amphetamine, and t….

Becoming a real researcher has been the ultimate humbling experience for me. Nature is the examiner from hell; if you find new things at all, you alw….

Thus, the distance between any two galaxies increases in time, creating the illusion of mechanical motion. But in reality, galaxies just sit there, c….

It is sometimes said that we should never believe a scientific theory until it is verified by experiment. But a famous astronomer has also stated tha….

Although the term dialogue was really a euphemism for scientists trying to kill each other, this format worked very well..

The game of science can accurately be described as a never-ending insult to human intelligence..