Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.
The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.
People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.
It is reasonable to ask who or what created the universe, but if the answer is God, then the question has merely been deflected to that of who created God.
Theology is unnecessary.
The fact that no one understands you doesn’t mean you’re an artist.
Once I wept for I had no shoes. Then I met a man with no feet, so I took his shoes. I mean, it wasn’t as if he was going to need them.
What was God doing before the divine creation? Was he preparing hell for people who asked such questions?
Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind I am free.
One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.
We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.
We have made remarkable progress in the last hundred years, but if we want to continue, our future is in space.
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.
It is very important for young people to keep their sense of wonder and keep asking why.
It’s clearly possible for a something to acquire higher intelligence than its ancestors: we evolved to be smarter than our ape-like ancestors, and Einstein was smarter than his parents.
I don’t think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I’m an optimist. We will reach out to the stars.
Science can explain the universe without the need for a Creator.
The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?