"If you're studying for an exam you're not thinking about the results. If you're always worried about the results, you can't study a lot. So to be engaged and detached from the outcome is excellent. Excellence is behavior. I mean, isn't that what martial arts is about? And that's what meditation is about, that's what, in many ways, sports are about."

"We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology."

"I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?"

"You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway."

"I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D."

"I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science."

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

"Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century."