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

We will first understand how simple the universe is when we recognize how strange it is.

Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millennium - we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid?

This is *our* Universe, our museum of wonder and beauty, our cathedral.

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

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

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