The world has changed far more in the past 100 years than in any other century in history. The reason is not political or economic but technological-technologies that flowed directly from advances in basic science. Clearly, no scientist better represents those advances than Albert Einstein: TIME's Person of the Century.

The more you learn, the more you know. The more you know, the more you forget. The more you forget, the less you know. So why bother to learn.

Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

I would rather be right than rigorous.

You cannot predict the future.

Theology is unnecessary.