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

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

So long as the Universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the Universe is really completely self-contained, it would have neither beginning or end, it would simply be. What place then for a creator?

Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.

If I have questions about the universe on my mind when I go to bed, I can't turn off. I dream equations all night.

Maybe I'm being a bit harsh on philosophers, but they have not been very kind to me... I have been variously called nominalist, an instrumentalist, a positivist, a realist, and several other ists. The technique seems refutation by denigration: If you can attach a label to my approach, you don't have to say what is wrong with it... I am sure that Einstein, Heisenberg and Dirac didn't worry about whether they were realists or instrumentalists.

The life we have on Earth must have spontaneously generated itself. It must therefore be possible for life to generate spontaneously elsewhere in the universe.