“Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look at the stars. This practice should answer the question.”

“He felt the urge to go into the desert, to see if it’s silence held the answers to his questions.”

“The truth is that in our lives we are all going to encounter questions that should be answered, that deserve to be answered, and yet prove unanswerable.”

“Questions are great, but only if you know the answers. If you ask questions and the answers surprise you, you look silly.”

“Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?”

“…sometimes you need to be imaginative about what kinds of research you do, compromise and be driven by the questions that need answering, rather than the tools available to you.”