Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

But a machine that was powerful enough to accelerate particles to the grand unification energy would have to be as big as the Solar System - and would be unlikely to be funded in the present economic climate.

Over a very small number of rolls of the dice, the uncertainty principle is very important.

What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.

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.

What is important is that we have the ability to create.

I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.