The Intersection of Music and Physics: "Music can be synthesized and it can be made by computers, but there's something uniquely, almost almost endemic to human beings that allows for sort of what what Stefan calls this path integral approach, where the mind is exploring and seeking out ways to minimize a quantity we physicists call action..."

Debating the Future of AI: "The ability to replicate the laws of physics merely based on computing power seems dubious to me."

The Clock of an Experimental Scientist: "Basically, an experimentalist has a certain Clarke that's ticking within his or her brain, and that clock is saying, what can I accomplish that will provide crisp new evidence that will reveal something new about the universe, that no one's ever known before so that my student can get a PhD or a postdoc or or I can get a a little, you know, continue the program of endeavor that I'm trying to achieve?"

The Challenge of Experimental Physics: "Our job is to kill off the bugs and theories and destroy theories that don't comport with evidence."

Nobel Contender Reflects on Advances in Cosmology: "How did we start from 1900 knowing almost nothing if the universe was static, eternal, infinite, finite, whatever, to knowing so much about cosmology, the age down to the, you know, tens of 1000000 of years, the density down to, you know, fractions of a percent, the expansion rate, depending on who you talk to to either, you know, sub percent or 9%, and etcetera."

The Nature of Time: "The biggest picture theory to me are to understand whether or not time is, had a beginning. And I think, you know, that has just tremendous implications for for not just me, but everybody in terms of philosophy, metaphysics, religion, if you believe."

Exploring the Universe: "If there's a we know that whatever effect there is that breaks symmetry in the electromagnetism world in the sector that we call photons, that has to be incredibly small. But over cosmic distances of billions of light years of travel time, you might see the evidence for the rotation of polarization of both photons and some say even of gravitational waves."

Questioning the Scientific Method: "He has his doubts about the existence even of the scientific method."

The Science of Consciousness: "I became very frustrated and disillusioned a little bit because they couldn't even, like, say for sure what consciousness was, and yet they said they have a science of consciousness or they're working towards the science of con."

"Physicists and Public Relations": "He believes, as he said in my podcast interview, that, physicists are the worst at PR, that have ever existed because we have the greatest material."