Physicists Are More Like Avant-garde Composers, Willing

Every Moment Is As Real As Every Other. Every 'now,' When You Say, 'this Is The Real Moment,' Is As Real As Every Other 'now' - And Therefore All The Moments Are Just Out There. Just As Every Location In Space Is Out There, I Think Every Moment In Time Is Out There, Too.

When You Know The Answer You Want, It Is Often All Too Easy To Figure Out A Way Of Getting It.

When I Give This Talk To A Physics Audience, I Remove The Quotes From My 'theorem'.

General Relativity Is In The Old Newtonian Framework Where You Predict What Will Happen, Not The Probability Of What Will Happen. And Putting Together The Probabilities Of Quantum Mechanics With The Certainty Of General Relativity, That's Been The Big Challenge And That's Why We Have Been Excited About String Theory, As It's One Of The Only Approaches That Can Put It Together.

Writing For The Stage Is Different From Writing For A Book. You Want To Write In A Way That An Actor Has Material To Work With, Writing In The First Person Not The Third Person, And Pulling Out The Dramatic Elements In A Bigger Way For A Stage Presentation.