Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense...

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense...

It is possible to build a virtual-reality generator whose repertoire includes every possible environment.

If you reject the infinite, you are stuck with the finite, and the finite is parochial... the best explanation of anything eventually involves universality, and therefore infinity. The reach of explanations cannot be limited by fiat.

If you can’t program it, you haven’t understood it.

I myself believe that there will one day be time travel because when we find that something isn't forbidden by the over-arching laws of physics we usually eventually find a technological way of doing it.

Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.