Man-made Computers Are Limited In Their Performance

I Always Look On The Black Side Of Life. That Way, You Won't Be Disappointed And I'm Cheerful If It Doesn't Work Out. I'm A Cheerful Pessimist.

People Take It For Granted That The Physical World Is Both Ordered And Intelligible. The Underlying Order In Nature - The Laws Of Physics - Are Simply Accepted As Given, As Brute Facts. Nobody Asks Where They Came From; At Least Not In Polite Company. However, Even The Most Atheistic Scientist Accepts As An Act Of Faith That The Universe Is Not Absurd, That There Is A Rational Basis To Physical Existence Manifested As Law-like Order In Nature That Is At Least Partly Comprehensible To Us. So Science Can Proceed Only If The Scientist Adopts An Essentially Theological Worldview.

Supposing We Knew That Up There Is Some Alien Civilization And It's Sending Radio Signals Our Way We Should Not Tell The Public Where That Is. We Could Say That We've Picked Up A Signal, But We Should Not Tell Them Where For The Simple Reason That Anybody Could Commandeer A Radio Telescope, Set Themselves Up As Some Self Appointed Spokesperson Of Mankind And Start Beaming All Sorts Of Crazy Messages Back To The Aliens.

Science Is About Explaining The World, And Religion Is About Interpreting It. There Shouldn't Be Any Conflict.

You've Got To Get Away From The Idea Cancer Is A Disease To Be Cured. It's Not A Disease Really. The Cancer Cell Is Your Own Body, Your Own Cells, Just Misbehaving And Going A Bit Wrong, And You Don't Have To Cure Cancer. You Don't Have To Get Rid Of All Those Cells. Most People Have Cancer Cells Swirling Around Inside Them All The Time And Mostly They Don't Do Any Harm, So What We Want To Do Is Prevent The Cancer From Gaining Control. We Just Want To Keep It In Check For Long Enough That People Die Of Something Else.