在一段 TED 视频中，Musk 曾阐述过自己的物理学思考方法论，他是这么说的：「 I do think there's a good framework for thinking. It‘s physics. You know, the sort of first principles reasoning.Generally I think there are -- what I mean by that is, boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there, as opposed to reasoning by analogy. Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics.」