It really is the most poetic thing i know about physics: you are all stardust.
For many, to live in a universe that may have no purpose, and no creator, is unthinkable.
Nothing can create something all the time due to the laws of quantum mechanics, and it’s – it’s fascinatingly interesting.
If our species is to survive, our future will probably require outposts beyond our own planet.
The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe is far more interesting than any of the fairy tales we have invented to describe it.
Teaching and writing, to me, is really just seduction; you go to where people are and you find something that they’re interested in and you try and use that to convince them that they should be interested in what you have to say.
The universe is the way it is, whether we like it or not.
There are a lot of legislators who are afraid that kids will learn science and lose their faith.
You are all stardust.
The universe does not care what we want.
The real thing that physics tell us about the universe is that it’s big, rare event happens all the time – including life – and that doesn’t mean it’s special.
Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
In this sense, science, as physicist Steven Weinberg has emphasized, does not make it impossible to believe in God, but rather makes it possible to not believe in God.
Celebrate our brief moment in the sun.
Without science, everything is a miracle.
Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive.
If you have nothing in quantum mechanics, you will always have something.
Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner we are without it, the better.
90% of the mass in your body comes from empty space.
Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short that you can’t even measure them.