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.

Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention.

So Einstein was wrong when he said, "God does not play dice." Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.

When I get to heaven I'm gonna find the guy in charge of the weather and kick his rear.

It is all right to make mistakes; nothing is perfect because with perfection, we would not exist.

I have experimental evidence that time travel is not possible.

Only a very few would allow creatures like us to exist. Thus our presence selects out from this vast array only those universes that are compatible with our existence. Although we are puny and insignificant on the scale of the cosmos, this makes us in a sense the lords of creation.