No space, no time, no gravity, no electromagnetism, no particles. Nothing. We are back where Plato, Aristotle and Parmenides struggled with the great questions: How Come the Universe, How Come Us, How Come Anything? But happily also we have around the answer to these questions. That's us.

Every heat engineer knows he can design his heat engine reliably and accurately on the foundation of the second law [of thermodynamics]. Run alongside one of the molecules, however, and ask it what it thinks of the second law. It will laugh at us. It never heard of the second law. It does what it wants. All the same, a collection of billions upon billions of such molecules obeys the second law with all the accuracy one could want

Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve.

The universe gives birth to consciousness, and consciousness gives meaning to the universe.

We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense this is aparticipatory universe.

Surely where there's smoke there's fire? No, where there's so much smoke there's smoke.

I like to think that someone will trace how the deepest thinking of India made its way to Greece and from there to the philosophy of our times