Gravity is matter’s sugar daddy.

How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?

A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.

Black holes provide theoreticians with an important theoretical laboratory to test ideas. Conditions within a black hole are so extreme, that by analyzing aspects of black holes we see space and time in an exotic environment, one that has shed important, and sometimes perplexing, new light on their fundamental nature.

Energy is the ultimate convertable currency.

We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains will be able to understand the deepest workings?

There's no way that scientists can ever rule out religion, or even have anything significant to say about the abstract idea of a divine creator.