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

It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

It's clearly possible for a something to acquire higher intelligence than its ancestors: we evolved to be smarter than our ape-like ancestors, and Einstein was smarter than his parents.

We explore because we are human and we want to know. I hope that Pluto will help us on that journey.

Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the Universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the Universe going.