To me quantum computation is a new and deeper and better way to understand the laws of physics, and hence understanding physical reality as a whole.

I don't think it would be a good idea for scientists to have more political power. Scientists as a group are more inclined to try to derive an ought from an is, than the population at large.

If we can't program it, we can't understand it.

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

Time travel may be achieved one day, or it may not. But if it is, it should not require any fundamental change in world-view, at least for those who broadly share the world view I am presenting in this book.

The theory that the biosphere was created without evolution, a few thousand years ago, is ruled out by overwhelming scientific evidence. To claim that there are 'alternative (always better) Biblical explanations of the same data', which make creationism a reasonable alternative to our best theories of biology and physics, is appalling intellectual dishonesty.

Discovering a new explanation is inherently an act of creativity.