“The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.”

“Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored.”

“...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance.”

“We all love a good story. We all love a tantalizing mystery. We all love the underdog pressing onward against seemingly insurmountable odds. We all, in one form or another, are trying to make sense of the world around us. And all of these elements lie at the core of modern physics. The story is among the grandest -- the unfolding of the entire universe; the mystery is among the toughest -- finding out how the cosmos came to be; the odds are among the most daunting -- bipeds, newly arrived by cosmic time scales trying to reveal the secrets of the ages; and the quest is among the deepest -- the search for fundamental laws to explain all we see and beyond, from the tiniest particles to the most distant galaxies.”

“...things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to notice.”

“But, as Einstein once said, “For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent.”5”

“Gravity is matter’s sugar daddy.”