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

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.

The world is just - it's wonderful when you look at all the detail. It's just amazing.

Ethical progress is the only cure for the damage done by scientific progress.

Atoms are weird stuff, behaving like active agents rather than inert substances. They make unpredictable choices between alternative possibilities according to the laws of quantum mechanics. It appears that mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent inherent in every atom. The universe is also weird, with its laws of nature that make it hospitable to the growth of mind. I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it passes beyond the scale of our comprehension.

The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared.

[John Wheeler] rejuvenated general relativity; he made it an experimental subject and took it away from the mathematicians