Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain lurking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space.

I am damned if I'm going to die before I have unraveled more of the universe

Real science can be far stranger than science fiction and much more satisfying.

There are no black holes - in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity. There are however apparent horizons which persist for a period of time.

Computers double their performance every month.

The life we have on Earth must have spontaneously generated itself. It must therefore be possible for life to generate spontaneously elsewhere in the universe.

If everything in the universe depends upon everything else in a fundamental way, it might be impossible to get close to a full solution by investigating parts of the problem in isolation.