If you understand how the universe operates, you control it in a way.

I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

Not only that God does play dice, but that He sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.

I put a lot of effort into writing 'A Briefer History' at a time when I was critically ill with pneumonia because I think that it's important for scientists to explain their work, particularly in cosmology. This now answers many questions once asked of religion.

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.

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