Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

It will be in the convergence of evolutionary biology, developmental biology and cancer biology that the answer to cancer will lie. Nor will this confluence be a one-way street.

The thing about lucid dreams is that it's not like the real world where you are constrained by all sorts of things, including the laws of physics - you can do magic.

It may seem bizarre, but in my opinion science offers a surer path to God than religion.

The laws of physics ... seem to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design... The universe must have a purpose.

In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.

To a physicist life looks nothing short of a miracle. It's just amazing what living things can do.

If we knew we were not alone in the universe it would have a very, very deep impact on our worldview, on our understanding of our place in the universe.

Science is about explaining the world, and religion is about interpreting it. There shouldn't be any conflict.

The Goldilocks Enigma is the idea that everything in the universe is just right for life, like the porridge in the fairy tale.

Technology is, in the broadest sense, mind or intelligence or purpose blending with nature.

The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.

You must worship the Self in Krishna, not Krishna as Krishna.

He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not but rejoices in what he has.

God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.

There are too many stars and too few actors.

Knowledge is never too dear.

Barack Obama will appeal to both black and white voters in America. White voters who'll think he's Tiger Woods.

I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my cockney accent.

We ran, plowing through another pile of peppers. [No, I didn't pick a peck of them, Sadie - just shut up.]

Love is the weapon of the future.