It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination. Its a crazy world out there. Be curious.

So great a contribution to physics was Two New Sciences that scholars have long maintained that the book anticipated Isaac Newton's laws of motion.

You can't regulate every lab in the world.

The meaning in life is not out there but inbetween our ears. In many ways this makes us the lords of creation.

Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.