The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it.

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

I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition.

Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain lurking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space.

I think the universe was spontaneously created out of nothing, according to the laws of science. It has no beginning and no end.

More often than politicians, but not as often as they should.

What was God doing before the divine creation?