I suppose I was trying to figure out the meaning of my own existence. ...I went about it in a more indirect… — Suzie Sheehy

The reason we can say today that we know all this stuff, that we think our theoretical models represent reality, is not because we have pretty mathematics but because we have done experiments.

[E]xperiments take us to that frightening frontier of vulnerability: the real world.

Physics will always be, at its core, about understanding our place in the Universe...