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

Almost everything about the universe is astounding. I think the most amazing thing is how gifted we are - we are only monkeys who came down from the trees just recently. We have these amazing gifts of music and mathematics and painting and Olympic running.

There are two different ways of looking at the universe; and it's the same universe with two different windows. The science window gives you a view of the world, and the religion window gives you a totally different view. You can't look at both of them at the same time, but they're both true.

In the history of science it has often happened that the majority was wrong and refused to listen to a minority that later turned out to be right.

The key to having an interesting life is to always say "yes" to anything crazy.

If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.

The ground of science was littered with the corpses of dead unified theories.