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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.

Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind, I am free.

If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason—for then we would know the mind of God.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner but that they reflect a certain underlying order.

We are time's witnesses and its victims.

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

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.

I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.