My Brain is the key that sets me free.
Just because things get a little dingy at the subatomic level doesn't mean all bets are off.
If I have seen further than others, it is because I am surrounded by dwarfs.
My colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands [and I] are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game. I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results. How can it be that writing down a few simple and elegant formulae, like short poems governed by strict rules such as those of the sonnet or the waka, can predict universal regularities of Nature?
If you know the wavefunction of the universe, why aren't you rich?
Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties
Planets are too dim to be detected with existing equipment, far away, except in these very special circumstances where they're seen by their gravitational effect
Writing shouldn't come between the reader and what's being described. It should be as transparent as possible.
Read everything. If you haven't read everything, you'll never be able to write anything.
I always love writing about children.
A lot of girls annoy me who go to university - one girl told me she was going to Oxford because it was something to do between leaving school and getting married. And I've got to pay for that being an income tax payer.