A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth!

When I sign books, I get lines of people and what they usually say is: "Thank you. You have changed my life." I am really moved by that.

Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.

The river of my title is a river of DNA, a river of information, not a river of bones and tissues

Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you don't know the Ten Commandments.

We should take astrology seriously. No, I don't mean we should believe in it. I am talking about fighting it seriously instead of humouring it as a piece of harmless fun.

The physicist's problem is the problem of ultimate origins and ultimate natural laws. The biologist's problem is the problem of complexity.