Do not be afraid to skip equations (I do this frequently myself).

My own way of thinking is to ponder long and I hope deeply on problems and for a long time which I keep away for years and years and I never really let them go.

I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance.

Understanding is, after all, what science is all about — and science is a great deal more than mindless computation.

Consciousness ... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.

Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor’s New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness and why it was not something that comes about from complicated calculations.

People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little realisation built on that.