“Organized religion and musicals present tenets to live by that don't entirely make sense but, on the whole, make people who believe them secure, thus giving an appearance of inclusiveness.”
“People who dismiss science in favor of religion sometimes confuse the challenge of rigorously understanding the world with a deliberate intellectual exclusion that leads them to mistrust scientists and, to their detriment, what they discover.”
“In the history of physics, every time we've looked beyond the scales and energies we were familiar with, we've found things that we wouldn't have thought were there. You look inside the atom, and eventually you discover quarks. Who would have thought that?”
“If you keep telling girls they're less good at science, that will probably be self-fulfilling. But there are quite a lot of women who are good at it.”
“If you look through the shelves of science books, you'll find row after row of books written by men. This can be terribly off-putting for women.”
“The best science frequently combines an awareness of broad and significant problems with focus on an apparently small issue or detail that someone very much wants to solve or understand. Sometimes these little problems or inconsistencies turn out to be the clues to big advances.”
“I think simplicity is a good guide: The more economical a theory, the better.”
“A musical, like most religions, provides the audience or followers with a sense of belonging. Religious services, on the other hand, with their staged performances, invigorating songs, popular wisdom and shared experience, are almost a form of community theater.”
“There are a lot of mysteries about quantum mechanics, but they mostly arise in very detailed measurements in controlled settings.”
“What makes me different as a scientist is that I'm kind of imaginative. The ideas just happen.”