If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, it would have recollapsed before it reached its present size. On the other hand, if it had been greater by a part in a million, the universe would have expanded too rapidly for stars and planets to form.

In a world that is in chaos politically, socially and environmentally, how can the human race sustain another 100 years?

I may contradict myself, but at least I don't contradict myself.

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

If you lined up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would try to pass them.

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.

We are only the temporary custodians of the particles which we are made of. They will go on to lead a future existence in the enormous universe that made them