Very strange people, physicists - in my experience the ones who aren't dead are in some way very ill.

I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course--the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end.

...and the Universe, ... will explode later for your pleasure.

In cases of major discrepancy its always reality thats got it wrong ... reality is frequently inaccurate.

Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.

Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, " This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself in; fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well! It must have been made to have me in it!

Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple.' Ah, well, I'm not sure I believe that.