The Goldilocks Enigma is the idea that everything in the universe is just right for life, like the porridge in the fairy tale.

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.

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.

There is no problem this universe can hand you that you aren't innately designed to solve. If it has been handed to you, it can be handled by you. This is the brilliant effectiveness of our design.

An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else.

I try to be true to the characters that I've created and sometimes I disagree with them, but their opinions about the story and the characters really matter to me.

When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.

No, I had the Levis guy on my wall, not a picture of William, sorry.

Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.

Kind of the bottom line for me, I don't think people come to the church where I preach to hear my view on politics.

Out of the blue and into the black

Without harmony in the State, no military expedition can be undertaken; without harmony in the army, no battle array can be formed.