“We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.”

“The universe gives birth to consciousness, and consciousness gives meaning to the universe.”

“But some numbers, called dimensionless numbers, have the same numerical value no matter what units of measurement are chosen. Probably the most famous of these is the "fine-structure constant," ......”

“Physicists love this number not just because it is dimensionless, but also because it is a combination of three fundamental constants of nature. Why do these constants come together to make the par...”

“Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.”

“Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.”

“A voice said: One. One. One, two. One, two. Then the footsteps went back into the distance. After a while, another voice said: One, two, three, four- And the universe came into being. It was wrong ...”

“Death was an inverse Big Bang; an impossible magic trick where everything had become nothing in the very same instant, where one state had been replaced so completely by another that no evidence of...”

“If the fate of the universe was decided in a single moment at the instant of the Big Bang , that was the most creative moment of all.”

“Creation, in all its splendor and misery, in all the beauty and ugliness of its myriad forms, is how God manifests His presence in time. Creation is God in time.”

“A world where it is safe to love is a world where it is safe to live”

“My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.”