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.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

Chaos, when left alone, tends to multiply.

The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary.

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

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

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.