And somehow mother nature manages to create this incredible biosphere, to create this incredibly rich environment of animals and plants with this amazingly small amount of data.

You have this world of mathematics, which is very real and which contains all kinds of wonderful stuff. And then we also have the world of nature, which is real, too.

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

Nothing is boring if you look at carefully.

The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible.

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control. Describing John von Neumann's aspiration for the application of computers sufficiently large to solve the problems of meteorology, despite the sensitivity of the weather to small perturbations.

I think science and religion should be separate.