When the going gets tough, the tough take a coffee break.

Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing.

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

Because imaginary time behaves like another direction in space, histories in imaginary time can be closed surfaces, like the surface of the Earth, with no [existential] beginning or end.

If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over.