The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered.

If it should turn out that the whole of physical reality can be described by a finite set of equations, I would be disappointed, I would feel that the Creator had been uncharacteristically lacking in imagination.

As finite creatures who think and feel, we can create islands of meaning in the sea of information.

The Ph.D. system was designed for a job in academics. And it works really well if you really want to be an academic, and the system actually works quite well. So for people who have the gift and like to go spend their lives as scholars, it's fine. But the trouble is that it's become a kind of a meal ticket - you can't get a job if you don't have a Ph.D.

Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.

CO2 is so beneficial...it would be crazy to try to reduce it

As a working hypothesis to explain the riddle of our existence, I propose that our universe is the most interesting of all possible universes, and our fate as human beings is to make it so