The concern here is that financial services become a kind of tech-led Wild West.

The question is: is the way the universe began chosen by God for reasons we can't understand, or was it determined by a law of science? I believe the second. If you like, you can call the laws of science 'God', but it wouldn't be a personal God that you could meet, and ask questions.

Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this.

The laws of science, as we know them at present, contain many fundamental numbers, like the size of the electric charge of the electron and the ratio of the masses of the proton and the electron .... The remarkable fact is that the values of these numbers seem to have been finely adjusted to make possible the development of life.

Disability need not be an obstacle to success.

[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.

Maybe I don't have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.