A great nation betrayed the principles which have made it great, and thereby became hostage to hostage-takers.
Every problem that is interesting is also soluble.
To me quantum computation is a new and deeper and better way to understand the laws of physics, and hence understanding physical reality as a whole.
Science is objective. And in my view we cannot take any experimental results seriously except in the light of good explanations of them.
Time travel may be achieved one day, or it may not. But if it is, it should not require any fundamental change in world-view, at least for those who broadly share the world view I am presenting in this book.
The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.
Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.
I had a hard time watching Wolf Creek. It is a film with one clear purpose: To establish the commercial credentials of its director by showing his skill at depicting the brutal tracking, torture and mutilation of screaming young women. When the killer severs the spine of one of his victims and calls her "a head on a stick," I wanted to walk out of the theater and keep on walking.
Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians.
My mother's a pretty warm, open person.
The more we idealize the past and refuse to acknowledge our childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation.