But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing—a universe that we humans, with our limited perspective, will someday understand.

— George F. Smoot, The God Particle, At the Heart of All Matter (2008)

Source: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/03/god-particle/achenbach-text

Quoted by Joel Achenbach in a March 2008 National Geographic article.

Topics: physics