When I came to Berkeley, I met all these Nobel laureates and I got to know that they were regular people. They were very smart and very motivated and worked very hard, but they were still humans, whereas before they were kind of mythical creatures to me.

I always think of space-time as being the real substance of space, and the galaxies and the stars just like the foam on the ocean.

The discovery and investigation of life on other planets is likely to change many of our ideas about how life arose on the Earth and even what is life and its natural development.

Both my parents instilled an interest in science and mathematics.

We will fail God, we will fail our family, and our family might fail us at times, but God never fails us.

Even the best teams can fail. Celebrities can fade. There is only One in whom your faith is always safe, and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need to let your faith show!

Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.

Empty heads, cognitive science has taught us, learn nothing. The powerful cultural and personal flexibility of our species is owed at least in part to our starting off so well-informed; we are good learners because we know what to pay attention to and what questions are the right ones to ask.