That's, of course, the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we do understand.

It's us that's really amazing. As far as I can see, our concentration of different abilities in one species - there's nothing I can see that in this Darwinian evolution that could've done that. So it seems to be a miracle of some sort.

In religion, you're supposed to be somehow in touch with something deep and full of mysteries.

...the computer models are very good at solving equations of fluid dynamics but very bad at describing the real world. The real world is full of things like clouds and vegetation and soil and dust which the models describe very poorly.

I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized.

I think it's a big mistake to decide too soon what you're going to do with your life.

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.