I'm prejudiced about education altogether. I think it's terribly overrated.

The universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.

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

There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.

It's us that's really amazing.

Trouble arises when either science or religion claims universal jurisdiction, when either religious dogma or scientific dogma claims to be infallible. Religious creationists and scientific materialists are equally dogmatic and insensitive. By their arrogance they bring both science and religion into disrepute.

The reason why new concepts in any branch of science are hard to grasp is always the same; contemporary scientists try to picture the new concept in terms of ideas which existed before.