Everybody thinks that depth is the great thing about 3-D. But in my book, volume is the great thing.

We are trying to create conditions like those in ancient Greece, which saw the flowering of ideas because people looked at the world with new eyes.

It’s an actual experience.

I’m looking for something kind of twisted.

Even when you are dealing with things that are unimaginably remote from human experience, I think it’s important to think about them in a human way.

Science’s greatest gift to civilization is its acknowledgement of fallibility.

The energy’s so dense, it could trigger all kinds of things. It could trigger mini-black holes … but let’s not worry too much about that.

Fate is fiction.

But it is true that the largest return on investment belongs to theoretical physics.