There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. But the difference is that once you've made the intuitive leap you have to justify it by filling in the intermediate steps. In my case, it often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find that they don't work, so I have to give it up

The universe would have expanded in a smooth way from a single point. As it expanded, it would have borrowed energy from the gravitational field, to create mat…

You have to be creative to do science. Otherwise you're just repeating tired formulas

To show this diagram properly, I would really need a four dimensional screen. However, because of government cuts, we could manage to provide only a two dimens…

Innovation is not the product of logical thought, even though the final product is tied to a logical structure.

A science in its infancy is the least satisfactory, and, at the same time, the most profitable theme for a general description.

These creators, makers of the new, can never become obsolete, for in the arts there is no correct answer. The story of discoverers could be told in simple chro…