As those who have seen Jurassic Park will know, this means a tiny disturbance in one place, can cause a major change in another. A butterfly flapping its wings can cause rain in Central Park, New York. The trouble is, it is not repeatable. The next time the butterfly flaps its wings, a host of other things will be different, which will also influence the weather. That is why weather forecasts are so unreliable.

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

You may see a cup of tea fall off a table and break into pieces on the floor... But you will never see the cup gather itself back together and jump back on the table. The increase of disorder, or entropy, is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.

There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap.

It's the gravity that shapes the large scale structure of the universe, even though it is the weakest of four categories of forces

We believe human begins have existed for only a small fraction of cosmic history, because human race has been improving so rapidly in knowledge and technology that if people had been around for millions of years, the human race would be much further along in it's mastery.

Maybe I don't have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.