"Slapstick is always funny. Oh yeah? How about now?"

"There are no black holes in the sense of a region of spacetime from which nothing can escape. Instead, there are apparent horizons which persist for a time and then vanish."

"Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the Universe exists, why we…"

"I deal in tough mathematical questions every day, but please don't ask me to help with Brexit."

"The fact that we humans, who are ourselves mere collections of fundamental particles, have been able to come this close to an understanding of the laws governing us and our universe is a great triumph…"