A neutrino comes into a detector, and most of the time, you don't see it. But very, very seldom, it will satisfy your curiosity and interact.

There are 300 neutrinos in every cubic centimeter of the entire universe.

I was already studying physics, but Sputnik steered me toward space, cosmology, the Big Bang, and elementary particles.

Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.

Most of us are going through life without interrogating whether our decision-making processes are fit for purpose. And that's something we need to change - especially when the stakes are high and the decisions are of real import.

The common wisdom is that only about 1 percent of a novelist's research ends up in his or her book. In my experience, it's even less - closer to a tenth of a percent.

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.