The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model.

God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man.

What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?

My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.

To insist that belief in the Bible demands belief in a young Earth is to put a stumbling block in the path of many nonbelievers. It raises the question of why a God who is committed to revealing truth would make the universe and Earth measure to be old if, in fact, they are not.

If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.

Beauty is not democratic; she reveals herself more to the few than to the many.

The best way to get a better answer is to start asking a better question.

A model should be as simple as it can be but no simpler

The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.

Behind every great story there's always another story.

I have to know the killer, the victim and the motive when I begin. Then I start to create the characters and see how the novel takes shape based on what these people are like.