“The hubris of man is thinking nature exists simply because he can see it — only then does he realize he is inside it, contained by time like fish in water.”

“This belief that the universe is ultimately comprehensible by our minds is a very strange one. We only have to look at the history of our race through time to see how arrogantly we use this idea: Anyone in the past, from Christ to Galileo, who didn't agree with whatever we currently believe would utterly baffle us. Given that we have surely evolved in various directions since the Middle Ages, it might well turn out that we are very weird. So our present perceptions, no matter how solid they may seem now, might appear as delusional and perplexing to our distant descendants as the beliefs of primitive people appear to us now.”

“I am flying through the sky in a spaceship near to the speed of light. What do I see? What I see is time.”

“You are just far too complex to be real. Something this amazing couldn't exist in nature, it simply couldn't. Not for very long anyway. You must be just a figment of my overactive imagination. Yes, that's it.”

“In the beginning was chaos. Not a void; but indeterminacy, potential existence without form or dimension, utterly shapeless. Then Crystallization began to happen spontaneously: masses condensed out of the soup of massless probability; these knots drew the fabric of reality around them and gradually grew into rational, defined structures such as galaxies, stars and planets. Matter condensed from energy, life built upon matter, consciousness upon life; this pattern repeated itself up to its limit.”

“Retirement From The Universe: Any person (human or artificial intelligence) who believes they have complete understanding of the universe has already retired from it.”

“If you can describe it in words, someone else can build a robot to do it”.

“Educational institutions are filled with people having the greatest difficulty in learning.”

“There is a universe of unexplored planets far, far away from here. And we will meet new intelligent species from these worlds so called aliens.”

“Your first conscious thought will never again seem quite so brilliant.”

“No matter who you are, no matter how smart you are, no matter what you have accomplished. If you cannot take rejection, then you cannot be a true scientist.”

“I used to object to reality but now I'm insisting on it.”

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.”

“Everything is made more beautiful by the presence of love.”

“Nature hides her secrets because of her timeless fear of commentors.”