I may contradict myself, but at least I don't contradict myself.

We are very, very small, but we are profoundly capable of very, very big things.

A million million million million (1 with twenty-four zeros after it) miles, the size of the observable universe.

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

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.

It's clearly possible for a something to acquire higher intelligence than its ancestors: we evolved to be smarter than our ape-like ancestors, and Einstein was smarter than his parents.

Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing.