Sheldon Glashow

"We must never stop questioning and seeking."

"The universe is a symphony of mathematical harmony."

"Great science requires great patience."

"Nature always has more secrets to reveal."

"The pursuit of understanding is a sacred trust."

"Every generation of scientists builds on the past."

"Creativity and rigorous thinking must go hand in hand."

"The universe speaks through the language of mathematics."

"We are all explorers of the natural world."

"Truth requires both courage and humility."

"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."

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

"Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge."

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

"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."

"I think it is a matter of some importance that the world should know that scientists are not blind to speculation about the universe."

"We are made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."

"The beauty of a flower is in its symmetry and its transience."

"To understand nature, one must speak its language: mathematics."

"The universe doesn't care about your feelings or your intentions—it simply is what it is."

"Curiosity is the engine that drives all scientific progress."

"A physicist is someone who sees problems and thinks about them."

"The greatest discoveries come from asking the simplest questions."

"Science is not a body of facts; it is a method of inquiry."

"We are all connected through the fundamental laws of physics."

"The universe is far stranger than our imagination can conceive."

"In the face of nature's complexity, humility is the only rational response."

"Physics teaches us that nothing is ever truly lost, only transformed."

"The pursuit of truth requires the courage to be wrong."

"Mathematics is the language in which God wrote the universe."