If God is real, and I believe he is, then he is outside of nature. He is, therefore, not limited by the laws of nature in the way that we are.

Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is.

To get our universe, with all of its potential for complexities or any kind of potential for any kind of life-form, everything has to be precisely defined on this knife edge of improbability. [Y]ou have to see the hands of a creator who set the parameters to be just so because the creator was interested in something a little more complicated than random particles.

What faith has not been used by demagogues as a club over somebody's head?

When does life begin? When does the soul enter? That's a religious question. Science is not going to be able to help with that.

A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences - and underestimated in the long run.

The word 'living' has so many connotations that I'm almost reluctant to try to define it scientifically because it sounds as if I'm then downgrading all the other significances of that word.