So when people ask me if I believe God created the universe, I tell them that the question itself makes no sense. Time didn't exist before the Big Bang, so there is no time for God to make the universe in. It's like asking for directions to the edge of the earth; the earth is a sphere, it doesn't have an edge, so looking for it is a futile exercise.

I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.

Half the battle is just showing up.

It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.

I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

I think the human race has no future if it doesn't go into space.