Why is there something rather than nothing?

Why is there something rather than nothing?

I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy-- of course, both those ideas are really the same idea.

The brain rewards us for interacting with beautiful things. In this way, evolution wants to encourage us to do what is good for us.

The answer to the ancient question Why is there something rather than nothing would be that nothingis unstable.

Many of my heroes, like Galileo, Maxwell, Newton and, less explicitly, Einstein thought what they were doing was finding out what God is. All of them had this inspiration that if you want to find out what God is, you have to look at his work.

An ordinary mistake is one that leads to a dead end, while a profound mistake is one that leads to progress. Anyone can make an ordinary mistake, but it takes a genius to make a profound mistake.