"The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy."

"An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy."

"Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out."

"I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing."

"The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless."