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I have always enjoyed explaining physics. In fact it's more than just enjoyment: I need to explain physics.

Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.

Physics is perceived as a lonesome, nerdy kind of enterprise that has very little to do with human feelings and the things that excite people day-to-day about each other. Yet physicists in their own working environment are very social creatures.

I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people.

I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation.

Over the years, I began to understand that there were a lot of people out there reading physics in popular literature that they could not understand - not because it was too advanced, but because it wasn't advanced enough.

Physicists must feel they are in the most exciting field in the world. Their minds must be afire.

I was going to engineering school but fell in love with physics.

Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.

There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics, but it doesn't work like that... There's a reason there are graduate schools in these departments.