“Yeah, I am a guy working on physics outside of academia. But I'm nowhere near Ei…” — Antony Garrett Lisi

My friends are all geeks. And many of them are scientists who love playing outside as much as I do.

I've gotten e-mails asking, 'Are you taking students?' Well, come visit and I'll be happy to talk to you. But I'm not a degree-granting institution.

Deep down, everybody wants to do what they want to be doing. They just feel that they can't.

Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them.