Motivational Status in English

There is no unique picture of reality.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

The laws of science do not distinguish between the past and the future.

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 believe there are no questions that science can't answer about a physical universe.

We are each free to believe what we want and it is my view that the simplest explanation is there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else.

There ought to be something very special about the boundary conditions of the universe, and what can be more special than that there is no boundary?

The human capacity for guilt is such that people can always find ways to blame themselves.

The victim should have the right to end his life if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope.

Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global warming, nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of.