In fact, if one considers the possible constants and laws that could have emerged, the odds against a universe that produced life like ours are immense.

It often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find they don't work, so I have to give it up.

Only time - whatever that may be - will tell.

Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

Science will win because it works.

I think the universe was spontaneously created out of nothing, according to the laws of science. It has no beginning and no end.