I played football and ran track in junior high, but by high school I was getting serious about my studies.

- George Smoot

I think we all want to know where we came from and how we fit into the world, but some of us need to know how it all works in great detail.

- George Smoot

Both my parents instilled an interest in science and mathematics.

- George Smoot

The big bang, the most cataclysmic event we can imagine, on closer inspection appears finely orchestrated.

- George Smoot

With something like Chernobyl, the public reaction was Oh, my God, science has really done wrong.

- George Smoot

But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing — a universe that we humans, with our …

- George Smoot

My name is George Smoot III, and I AM smarter than a fifth-grader.

- George Smoot

There is no doubt that a parallel exists between the big bang as an event and the Christian notion of creation from nothing.

- George Smoot