1. “It is pointless to have nice clean desk, because it means you’re not doing anything.”
2. “In science, nothing is ever 100% proven.”
3. “Physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself.”
4. “It seems that the one characteristic most closely correlated with success in life, which has persisted over the decades, is the ability to delay gratification.”
5. “Music is the voice of God travelling through ten-dimensional hyperspace.”
6. “For those who believe, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not believe, no explanation will suffice.”
7. “All kids are born geniuses, but are crushed by the society.”
8. “I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civilization today, it’s the wealth that comes from science.”
9. “Virtual reality and augmented reality will change the way we shop.”
10. “I believe we exist in a multiverse of universes .”
11. “Democracies are slow to anger and hesitant to go to war. Voters don’t want to sacrifice their children for the glory of a selfish king.”
12. “You cannot create new science unless you realize where the old science leaves off and new science begins and science fiction forces us to confront this.”
13. “I have concluded that we are in a world made by rules created by an intelligence.”
14. “Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
15. “The internet frees people to realize they don’t have to live like slaves.”
16. “There is no reason why we cannot become smarter, more perfect and maybe even live longer.”
17. “The quest for a quantum gravity is one of the greatest unsolved problems in all of science.”
18. “Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it.”
19. “A lot of things you see in science fiction revolve around black holes because black holes are strong enough to rip the fabric of space and time.”
20. “The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe.”
