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.

If it [the universe] was expanding fairly slowly, the force of gravity would cause it eventually to stop expanding and then to start contracting. However, if it was expanding at more than a certain critical rate, gravity would never be strong enough to stop it, and the universe would continue to expand forever.

A person who smiles in the face of adversity...probably has a scapegoat.

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

While there's life, there is hope.

The concern here is that financial services become a kind of tech-led Wild West.

One can't predict the weather more than a few days in advance.