When I was first diagnosed with ALS, I was given two years to live. Now 45 years later, I am doing pretty well.

So when people ask me if I believe God created the universe, I tell them that the question itself makes no sense. Time didn't exist before the Big Bang, so there is no time for God to make the universe in. It's like asking for directions to the edge of the earth; the earth is a sphere, it doesn't have an edge, so looking for it is a futile exercise.

The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression.

When two's company, three's the result!

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.

Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it. No matter how many times the results of experiments agree with some theory, you can never be sure that the next time the result will not contradict the theory.

Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker.