We can never know the origins of the universe. The deepest secrets are the ones that keep themselves.

History is full of people who thought they were right -- absolutely right, completely right, without a shadow of a doubt. And because history never seems like history when you are living through it, it is tempting for us to think the same.

We can predict the present without having to know everything about the past.

There is no reason that the universe should be designed for our convenience.

If all the stars and galaxies in the universe today were smoothed out into a uniform sea of atoms, there would only be about one atom in every cubic meter of space.

We are just strings of quarks living in a suburb of the local density maximum of the universe.

One would normally define a "religion" as a system of ideas that contain statements that cannot be logically or observationally demonstrated... Gödels theorem not only demonstrates that meathematics is a religion, but shows that mathematics is the only religion that proves itself to be one!