The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.

Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.

Movement is fundamental to the Universe.

When you push aside complexities, what you have are fundamental simplicities

The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting, and, in fact, given the weaknesses of my background, very difficult.

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.