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

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

If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.

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

I like to say, when asked why I pursue science, that it is to satisfy my curiosity, that I am by nature a searcher trying to understand. If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.

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?

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