You cannot understand the glories of the universe without believing there is some Supreme Power behind it.

So long as the Universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the Universe is really completely self-contained, it would have neither beginning or end, it would simply be. What place then for a creator?

Chaos, when left alone, tends to multiply.

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

A picture is worth a thousand words...and uses up a thousand times the memory.

In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn't change policy.