It seems a bit unfair to my relatives to be murdered in order to provide an opportunity for free will for Germans, but even putting that aside, how does free will account for cancer? Is it an opportunity of free will for tumors?

Elementary particles are terribly boring, which is one reason why we're so interested in them.

In science we don't have prophets. We have heroes, but not prophets.

It does not help that some politicians and journalists assume the public is interested only in those aspects of science that promise immediate practical applications to technology or medicine.

On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful.

A physicist friend of mine once said that in facing death, he drew some consolation from the reflection that he would never again have to look up the word "hermeneutics" in the dictionary.

Journalists generally have no bias toward one cosmological theory or another, but many have a natural preference for excitement.