Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren’t equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it’s just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four.
I enjoy all forms of music – pop, classical and opera.
Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.
The moment you understand the whole Universe is the moment you slightly begin to understand the way God’s mind works.
If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.
It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.
Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.
There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.
Scientists tend to risk theories they admire.
The idea of 10 dimensions might sound exciting, but they would cause real problems if you forget where you parked your car.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
Never put off the work till tomorrow what you can put off today.
Success is a relative term. It brings so many relatives.
When the going gets tough, the tough take a coffee break.
Plagiarism saves time.
If any one of about 40 physical qualities had more than slightly different values, life as we know it could not exist...
Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.
Science could predict that the universe must have had a beginning.
There should be a better way to start a day than waking up every morning.
When two’s company, three’s the result!