Base metals can be transmuted into gold by stars, and by intelligent beings who understand the processes that power stars, but by nothing else in the universe.

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

The most important application of quantum computing in the future is likely to be a computer simulation of quantum systems, because that's an application where we know for sure that quantum systems in general cannot be efficiently simulated on a classical computer.

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.

The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.

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.