Sheldon Glashow

"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."

"In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself—nature does it for you."

"A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it."

"I believe that today's scientists have a responsibility to think carefully about the implications of their work."

"The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine."

"String theory is twenty-first century physics that fell accidentally into twentieth century mathematics."

"Physics is the only profession in which prophesying the past is an accomplishment."

"Physicists are made, not born."

"The electron: may it never be of any use to anybody."

"I did not pray. Science can answer the big questions."

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty."

"Our responsibility is to leave the world better than we found it."

"The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms."

"We are all subject to the laws of nature. It is only a question of time before we understand them all."

"The standard model is not the final word on particle physics."

"I have been fortunate to have access to the best minds in physics."

"Curiosity is the driving force of science."

"The universe is written in the language of mathematics."

"Truth is like poetry. And most people hate poetry."

"We must question our assumptions constantly."

"Great scientific revolutions come not from steady accumulation but from radical changes of perspective."

"The work of scientists is to discover nature's secrets."

"In science, there are no shortcuts to truth."

"Fundamental physics seeks the deepest principles."

"Every question in science leads to ten new questions."

"The beauty of nature is that it is rational."

"We stand on the shoulders of giants."

"Theory without experiment is philosophy; experiment without theory is stamp collecting."

"The pursuit of knowledge is the noblest of all pursuits."

"I have been blessed with the opportunity to work with remarkable people."