We are living through a remarkably privileged era when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration.

One of the wonders of science is that it is completely universal. It crosses national boundaries with total ease.

If string theory is right, the microscopic fabric of our universe is a richly intertwined multidimensional labyrinth within which the strings of the universe endlessly twist and vibrate, rhythmically beating out the laws of the cosmos.

We might be the holographic image of a two-dimensional structure.

The fact that I don't have any particular need for religion doesn't mean that I have a need to cast religion aside the way some of my colleagues do.

I wouldn't say that The Fabric of the Cosmos is a book on cosmology. Cosmology certainly plays a big part, but the major theme is our ever-evolving understanding of space and time, and what it all means for our sense of reality.

Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.