As A Child, I Wanted To Know

Our Population And Our Use Of The Finite Resources Of Planet Earth Are Growing Exponentially, Along With Our Technical Ability To Change The Environment For Good Or Ill. But Our Genetic Code Still Carries The Selfish And Aggressive Instincts That Were Of Survival Advantage In The Past. It Will Be Difficult Enough To Avoid Disaster In The Next Hundred Years, Let Alone The Next Thousand Or Million. Our Only Chance Of Long Term Survival, Is Not To Remain Inward Looking On Planet Earth, But To Spread Out Into Space.

Because Imaginary Time Behaves Like Another Direction In Space, Histories In Imaginary Time Can Be Closed Surfaces, Like The Surface Of The Earth, With No [existential] Beginning Or End.

It Is Tribute To How Far We Have Come In Theoretical Physics That It Now Takes Enormous Machines And A Great Deal Of Money To Perform Experiments Whose Results We Can Not Predict.

It Often Happens That I Have An Idea, But Then I Try To Fill In The Intermediate Steps And Find They Don't Work, So I Have To Give It Up.

I Was Not A Good Student. I Did Not Spend Much Time At College; I Was Too Busy Enjoying Myself.