You know what the ideal dove gun for any given day is? Your other-the one you left at home.
The standard model gives us an accuracy of ten decimal digits, this is an amazing success that has never been achieved before in science.
I am almost certain that space and time are illusions. These are primitive notions that will be replaced by something more sophisticated.
We do not know how to formulate string theory nor do we know its underlying principles. Surprisingly, this fact does not stop us from making progress.
Newton's theory is not 'not right', it just does not cover all distances. Contrary to popular belief, theories in science are not proven wrong, they are just replaced by more complete and convenient theories. To sound provocative, even the geocentric theory was never "proven" wrong, it is just not as convenient as the heliocentric theory, since it requires endless epicycles.
What will the greatest experiment discover? I have no idea!, maybe nothing!, If we won't check, we will never know. In science there is never a guarantee of success. If you understood this last sentence, then you understood the most important message of this lecture.
Two lines must meet at a point. Therefore there are only two surprises here.
The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write.
As for piracy, I love to be pirated. It is the greatest compliment an author can have. The wholesale piracy of Democracy was the single real triumph of my life. Anyone may steal what he likes from me.
I would have given my right arm to have been a pianist.
Americans are not getting screwed by the Republican Party. They're getting screwed by the large corporations that bought and own the Republican Party.