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Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.
Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.
The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.
I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.
The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
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, which may or may not be divinely inspired.
I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.
There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.
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.