Our grandkids will lead the lives of the gods of mythology. Zeus could think and move objects around. We'll have that power. Venus had a perfect, timeless body. We'll have that, too. Pegasus was a flying horse. We'll be able to modify life in the future.

A related aspect of intelligent consciousness is delay of gratification: the wisdom to accurately predict whether delay rather than acting on impulse will yield greater benefit.

I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civilization today, it's the wealth that comes from science.

Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.

What do oil company executives, vampires and NASA bureaucrats all have in common? They fear solar energy.

I would hope that the publicity around the Higgs boson would increase the public awareness of physics and cosmology.

Music is the voice of God traveling through ten-dimensional hyperspace.