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

Only a very few would allow creatures like us to exist. Thus our presence selects out from this vast array only those universes that are compatible with our existence. Although we are puny and insignificant on the scale of the cosmos, this makes us in a sense the lords of creation.

I am damned if I'm going to die before I have unraveled more of the universe

If any one of about 40 physical qualities had more than slightly different values, life as we know it could not exist.

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.

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit, as well as physically.

One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.