For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with a singularity, if Einstein's general theory of relativity is correct. That appeared to indicate that science could not predict how the universe would begin.

You cannot predict the future.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.

Physics as we know it will be over in six months - Max Born

No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.

There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.