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.

Most of what we see in the universe is dust.

Now, as Mandelbrot points out, ... Nature has played a joke on the mathematicians. The 19th-century mathematicians may not have been lacking in imagination, but Nature was not. The same pathological structures that the mathematicians invented to break loose from 19th-century naturalism turn out to be inherent in familiar objects all around us.

Boiled down to one sentence, my message is the unboundedness of life and the unboundedness of human destiny.

Science and religion are two windows that people look through, trying to understand the big universe outside, trying to understand why we are here. The two windows give different views, but they look out at the same universe. Both views are one-sided, neither is complete. Both leave out essential features of the real world. And both are worthy of respect.

It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Science and religion are, of course, two different ways of looking at the universe; and it's the same universe with two different windows.