Mostly I'm just writing books for the public, and so I try to describe for the public what the choices are, what they might have to expect in the future and so by warning people ahead of time maybe you have an effect.

Our thinking is permeated by our historical myths

Everything in my life was luck. The key to having an interesting life is to always say "yes" to anything crazy.

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.

Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.

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.

Humanity looks to me like a magnificent beginning but not the final word.