In the frantic search for an elusive 'cure,' few researchers stand back and ask a very basic question: why does cancer exist? What is its place in the grand story of life?

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.

Your happiness is a prayer for me, therefore i will always pray for your happiness.

God is love—He is gracious and forgives.

I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.

The world produces enough food for everyone. Why are one billion people going hungry?

I would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag.

I ain't good-lookin', but I'm somebody's angel child.

I disagree with the widely held view that it is metaphysical necessity, not nomological, that matters in the mind/body problem.

Our secret thoughts are rarely heard except in secret. No man knows what conscience is until he understands what solitude can teach him concerning it.

The poet marries the language, and out of this marriage the poem is born.

We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.