The laws of science do not distinguish between the past and the future.

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

Because imaginary time behaves like another direction in space, histories in imaginary time can be closed surfaces, like the surface of the Earth, with no [existential] beginning or end.

Exploration by real people inspires us.

Science will win because it works.

The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies. We are so insignificant that I can't believe the whole universe exists for our benefit. That would be like saying that you would disappear if I closed my eyes.

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.