I do not believe in a personal God.

Thirty years ago I was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, and given two and a half years to live. I have always wondered how they could be so precise about the half.

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

Maybe I'm being a bit harsh on philosophers, but they have not been very kind to me... I have been variously called nominalist, an instrumentalist, a positivist, a realist, and several other ists. The technique seems refutation by denigration: If you can attach a label to my approach, you don't have to say what is wrong with it... I am sure that Einstein, Heisenberg and Dirac didn't worry about whether they were realists or instrumentalists.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.

Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it.

Issuing an insurance policy against abduction by aliens seems a pretty safe bet.