"I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark."

"I think that the universe is a beautiful and complex place, and I'm very lucky to be able to study it."

"You have no talent. You are like a Chinese food delivery guy without Chinese food."

"The universe is a beautiful and complex place, and we are lucky to be a part of it."

"Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we…"