Executive: a man who makes quick decisions and is sometimes right.
Science is a combination of theory and experiment and the two together are how you make progress.
When I was in school I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective.
Although I was first drawn to math and science by the certainty they promised, today I find the unanswered questions and the unexpected connections at least as attractive.
Physicists have yet to understand why the Higgs boson's mass is what it is.
We certainly don't yet know all the answers. But the universe is about to be pried open.
You can be only a modest distance away from the gravity brane, and gravity will be incredibly weak.
There are places in this world where fable, myth, preconception, love, longing or prejudice step in and so distort a cool, clear appraisal that a kind of high colored magical confusion takes permanent hold. . . Surely Texas is such a place.
I've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art.
I don't think I'd want to sit down and listen to people's stories all day long.
Prior to the 1976 Olympics, I was a 5,000m runner.