It may well be there is something else going on in the brain that we don't have an inkling of at the moment.

It is always the case, with mathematics, that a little direct experience of thinking over things on your own can provide a much deeper understanding than merely reading about them.

Consciousness ... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.

I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance.

Intelligence cannot be present without understanding. No computer has any awareness of what it does.

our present picture of physical reality, particularly in relation to the nature of time, is due for a grand shake up

Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train.

If you didn’t have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn’t be morality but with consciousness that you have it.

With thought comprising a non-computational element, computers can never do what we human beings can.

Do not be afraid to skip equations (I do this frequently myself).

Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense.

God has not changed. His laws have not changed. He is still a God of love and mercy But He is also a God of righteousness and judgment.

I would not run for president. I really like what I'm doing now. People say I'm giving them energy and hope.

Simply killing everyone who is already a terrorist today won't solve the problem.

Love is finding someone better than you are, and holding on for dear life

A letter is the portrait of the soul.

Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it.

I hope that by 2050 the entire solar system will have been explored and mapped by flotillas of tiny robotic craft.

There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.

When you create you get a little endorphin rush. Why do you think Einstein looked like that?

Once one is beyond a certain level of commitment to the sport, life begins to seem an allegory of rowing rather than rowing an allegory of life.