The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?I think one of the reasons why things are getting blurry is because there is not much meaning.

All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.

I'm still happy with the way Einstein's Dreams came out. That book came out of a single inspiration. I really felt like I was not creating the words, that I was hearing the words. That someone else was speaking the words to me and I was just writing them down. It was a very strange experience. That can happen with a short book. I don't think it could happen with a long book.

Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.

I picked such seemingly disparate essays, I thought it was important to say what was the guiding principle in the selection rather than focus on any one essay. I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness. Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.

Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.

-But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.