The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all

When asked, 'What did God do before he created the universe?' St. Augustine didn´t reply, 'he was preparing Hell for people who asked such questions.' Instead, he said that time was a property of the universe that God created, and that time did not exist before the beginning of the universe

The old paradox: Can God make a stone so heavy that he can´t lift it

All the evidence shows that God was actually quite a gambler, and the universe is a great casino, where dice are thrown, and roulette wheels spin on every occasion

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image