Our capacity for fulfillment can come only through faith and feelings. But our capacity for survival must come from reason and knowledge.

Possession of a program with unique analytic capabilities puts a scientist in as much of a priveleged position to make new discoveries as the possession of a powerful telescope.

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

The great unexplored frontier is complexity ... I am convinced that the nations and people that master the new science of Complexity will become the economic, cultural, and political superpowers of the next century.

Theoretical and experimental physicists are now studying nothing at all-the vacuum. But that nothingness contains all of being.

Science shows us what exists but not what to do about it.

What is the universe? Is it a great 3D movie in which we are the unwilling actors? Is it a cosmic joke, a giant computer, a work of art by a Supreme Being or simply an experiment? The problem in trying to understand the universe is that we have nothing to compare it to.