I grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be.

I think books should have secrets, like people do.

What's unique about the Mormon Church is that it encourages inquiry. I really do think my research and religion are all on the same page. I never could have come up with the notion of disruptive innovations, which went against a lot of conventional wisdom, if I hadn't been raised to always be asking questions.

If I had a time machine, I'd visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turned his telescope to the heavens.

Myth is much more important and true than history.

Mythology -and therefore civilization- is a poetic, supernormal image, conceived, like all poetry, in depth, but susceptible of interpretation on various levels.

We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.

it may never be said that like the state and the church, science arose because of sin and thus from an intervening grace.

There is no physical law precluding particles from being organised in ways that perform even more advanced computations than the arrangements of particles in human brains.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

Well, there's no way that we can get into the mind of Beyonce.

She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep.