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.

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

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.

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!

When we try to observe things that are very small, the act of observation itself will significantly disturb the state we are seeking to measure.

There was no "before" the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.