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

Discovering a new explanation is inherently an act of creativity.

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

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.

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.

Science is objective. And in my view we cannot take any experimental results seriously except in the light of good explanations of them.

Is the human race a universal constructor?