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

What I meant by 'we would know the mind of God' is, we would know everything that God would know, if there were a God. Which there isn't. I'm an atheist.

We live in the most probable of all possible worlds.

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?

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, [and] science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.

Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security.