We should seek the greatest value of our action.

There ought to be something very special about the boundary conditions of the universe and what can be more special than that there is no boundary?

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.

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.

Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

I put a lot of effort into writing 'A Briefer History' at a time when I was critically ill with pneumonia because I think that it's important for scientists to explain their work, particularly in cosmology. This now answers many questions once asked of religion.

Unless mankind redesigns itself by changing our DNA through altering our genetic makeup, computer-genera ted robots will take over our world.