We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence.

We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit.

The world has changed far more in the past 100 years than in any other century in history. The reason is not political or economic but technological-technologies that flowed directly from advances in basic science. Clearly, no scientist better represents those advances than Albert Einstein: TIME's Person of the Century.

We've created life in our own image.

To boldly go where no one has gone before

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

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