“I may be a Jewish scientist, but I would be tickled silly if one day I...” — Brian Greene Quote

I may be a Jewish scientist, but I would be tickled silly if one day I were reincarnated as a Baptist preacher.

There's a picture of my dorm room in the college yearbook as the most messy, most disgusting room on the Harvard campus, where I was an undergraduate.

What makes a Beethoven symphony spectacular, what makes a Brahms rhapsody spectacular is that the patterns are wondrous.

Many different planets are many different distances from their host star; we find ourselves at this distance because if we were closer or farther away, the temperature would be hotter or colder, eliminating liquid water, an essential ingredient for our survival.

We have jokingly said if you've got good hair, can sing and know three chords, you can lead worship at First Baptist Houston or wherever. But that's kind of scary, putting somebody on stage just because they have a good voice. Do they know theologically and spiritually what they're saying and why they're doing it?

I grew up in a Baptist church my whole life.

My granddad and great granddad were Baptist preachers from Western Kentucky.

My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions.

My grandfather, my mom's father, started what's now a fairly prominent Baptist church in Memphis.