We have this very clean picture of science, you know, these well-established rules with which we make predictions. But when you’re really doing science, when you’re doing research, you’re at the edge of what we...

I considered going into business or becoming a lawyer – not for the money, but for the thrill of problem-solving.

Physicists have yet to understand why the Higgs boson’s mass is what it is.

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...

I don’t necessarily make much art myself, but after I wrote ‘Warped Passages,’ I was fortunate to get involved a little in the art world. I got invited to write a libretto for what we...

The scientist is also a composer… You could think of science as discovering one particular thing – a supernova or whatever. You could also think of it as discovering this whole new way of seeing...

You have to be careful when you use beauty as a guide. There are many theories people didn’t think were beautiful at the time but did find beautiful later – and vice versa.

You can be only a modest distance away from the gravity brane, and gravity will be incredibly weak.

I grew up in New York City. I went to museums so much as a kid, and I guess I didn’t realize how much it affected me.