I think the universe was spontaneously created out of nothing, according to the laws of science. It has no beginning and no end.

We have made remarkable progress in the last hundred years, but if we want to continue, our future is in space.

There are plenty of dead scientists I admire, but I can't think of any living ones. This is probably because it is only in retrospect that one can see who made the important contributions.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

The Universe in a Nutshell

There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.

Perhaps we could write code to optimize code, then run that code through the code optimizer?