We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains will be able to understand the deepest workings?

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.

Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding.

When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level

Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty.

We're on this planet for the briefest of moments in cosmic terms, and I want to spend that time thinking about what I consider the deepest questions.

Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.

I was holding [my four-year-old daughter] and I said, 'Sophia, I love you more than anything in the universe.' And she turned to me and said, 'Daddy, universe or multiverse?'

Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future.

All you are is a bag of particles acting out the laws of physics. That to me is pretty clear.

Physics grapples with the largest questions the universe presents. Where did the totality of reality come from? Did time have a beginning?

You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.

Perhaps God is not calling you to live for peace, but rather to fight for it.

It takes a great deal of courage to stand alone even if you believe in something very strongly.

Weight loss doesn't begin in the gym with a dumb bell

Father sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky.

When I speak of The Case for Equality I mean human equality; and that, of course, can only mean one thing: it means equality of income.

Long ago, in a burst of friendliness, Aunty and Uncle Jimmy produced a son named Henry.

Thanks to Bart Simpson, I have a pretty good life.

What happened in the United States election is not a matter for the United Kingdom, it is a matter for the United States and the United States authorities.

No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.