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

There ought to be something very special about the boundary conditions of the universe and what can be more special than that there is no boundary?

All that my work has shown is that you don't have to say that the way the universe began was the personal whim of God.

Religion believes in miracles, but these aren't compatible with science.

If there really is a complete unified theory that governs everything, it presumably also determines your actions. But it does so in a way that is impossible to calculate for an organism that is as complicated as a human being. The reason we say that humans have free will is because we can't predict what they will do.

In the last 200 years the population of our planet has grown exponentially, at a rate of 1.9% per year. If it continued at this rate, with the population doubling every 40 years, by 2600 we would all be standing literally shoulder to shoulder.

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?