Surely where there's smoke there's fire? No, where there's so much smoke there's smoke.

No space, no time, no gravity, no electromagnetism, no particles. Nothing. We are back where Plato, Aristotle and Parmenides struggled with the great questions: How Come the Universe, How Come Us, How Come Anything? But happily also we have around the answer to these questions. That's us.

It was the defining event and remains a thousand degrees hot.

The job of a theoretical physicist is to make mistakes as fast as possible .

If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.

The observer cannot be left out of the description of the observation.

In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality.

No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.

This is *our* Universe, our museum of wonder and beauty, our cathedral.

Of all heroes , Spinoza was Einstein 's greatest. No one expressed more strongly then he a belief in the harmony , the beauty , and most of all the ultimate comprehensibility of nature.

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

Now is the time for everyone who believes in the rule of reason to speak up against pathological science and its purveyors.

The laws of physics that we regard as 'sacred,' as immutable, are anything but.