As you say, the way string theory requires all these extra dimensions and this comes from certain consistency requirements about how string should behave and so on.

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.

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

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

God’s has limitless resources to meet all your needs.

Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone.

Socialism is an insurance policy bought by all the members of a national economy to shield them from risk. But the result is to shield them from knowledge of the real dangers and opportunities.

After many decades of Disney movies, we have been conditioned to expect princesses to fall in love quickly with their charming princes and 'live happily ever after.'

I'm really into California art from the '60s.

Without a doubt, Ozzy is the craziest person I've ever met. Son of Sam is a close second.

Your real being only flowers with unconditional love. Ambition is against love. Anything that is against love is against you and your real life.

Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.

Apples taste sweetest when they're going.

In some of the darkest and hardest moments, there is always a part of me that is okay. And I can always access that part of me.