The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

The doctor who diagnosed me with ALS, or motor neuron disease, told me that it would kill me in two or three years.

I think computer viruses should count as life.

With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process, because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code.

Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool.

It is said that there's no such thing as a free lunch. But the universe is the ultimate free lunch.

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.