Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.

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

In effect, we have redefined the task of science to be the discovery of laws that will enable us to predict events up to the limits set by the uncertainty principle.

Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

Thirty years ago I was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, and given two and a half years to live. I have always wondered how they could be so precise about the half.

Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker. Although the universe doesn’t have an end, it had a beginning in the Big Bang. One might ask what is before that but the answer is that there is nowhere before the Big Bang just as there is nowhere south of the South Pole.

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