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

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.

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.

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's hard to get motivated fixing a compile-time syntax error when you can buy a powder that turns a house into a monster.

My mother wanted to name me Jackie or Jacqueline but she got to name my sister and my brother, so my dad and my brother insisted on naming me. And they were big fans of 'The Little Mermaid.'

Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

Temple. One other word is equal in importance to a Latter-day Saint. Home. Put the words holy temple and home together, and you have described the house of the Lord!

My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?

The first five times that you bang someone and the last million times are two different worlds.

I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.

One should never say never.

There was nothing dark and hidden about Jesus. He was and is the Light of the world, and He welcomed the light.