Our thinking is permeated by our historical myths

I think the biggest misconception is that everybody has to learn mathematics. That seems to be a complete mistake.

The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.

I grew up in England and we spent most of the time on Latin and Greek and very little on science, and I think that was good because it meant we didn't get turned off. It was... Science was something we did for fun and not because we had to.

Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams.

That's what I learned from World War II. Things are always more complicated than most people believe.

Nothing is boring if you look at carefully.