My parents were not at all involved in science. In fact, neither of them went to college.

If laws are just properties of objects, how can those laws continue to operate when the object is not really there?

If we assume there is no maximum possible entropy for the universe, then any state can be a state of low entropy.

I do worry about the fact that science is becoming a slower process as society is becoming less patient.

I think I always wanted to go into physics. What always fascinated me about science was the desire to understand what underlies it all, and I think physics is basically the study of that.

I'm pretty slow at writing papers.

It was sort of assumed, from the time I was born, really, that I would go to college. That's sort of the way that Jewish families in New Jersey handled things; that was the norm.

I'm a cosmologist. All I do is cosmology.

I had considered MIT a place where brilliant people came.

I am not aware of any sensible theory of how classical gravity could interact with quantum matter, and I can't imagine how such a theory might work.