Ultimate questions will always lie beyond the scope of empirical science as it is.

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.

Screw the daring tough guy image, what happened with us broke me.

The questions we don’t ask become the puzzles we don’t solve.

An individual human existence should be like a river

Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.

You haven't been soiling your soul in public for years like we have.

I don't know if I've learned anything about people, but I've learned about Twitter.

Men should have more time with their newborn babies.

For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals.

Your personality is what makes you sexy.

It is the same life that emerges in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless waves of flower.