People Are Interested In Science, But They

It Really Is The Most Poetic Thing I Know About Physics: You Are All Stardust.

We Now Know That We Are More Insignificant Than We Ever Imagined. If You Get Rid Of Everything We See, The Universe Is Essentially The Same. We Constitute A 1 Percent Bit Of Pollution In A Universe . . . We Are Completely Irrelevant.

My Area Of Research Is Something That In All Fairness Has No Practical Usability Whatsoever And The Thing Is I'm Often Asked To Apologize For That. It Is Interesting To Me That People Ask 'what's The Point Of Doing That If It's Not Useful?' But They Never Ask That, Or Do They Very Rarely Ask That About Art Or Literature Or Music. Those Things Are Not Gonna Produce A Better Toaster.

Of Course, Supernatural Acts Are What Miracles Are All About. They Are, After All, Precisely Those Things That Circumvent The Laws Of Nature. A God Who Can Create The Laws Of Nature Can Presumably Also Circumvent Them At Will. Although Why They Would Have Been Circumvented So Liberally Thousands Of Years Ago, Before The Invention Of Modern Communication Instruments That Could Have Recorded Them, And Not Today, Is Still Something To Wonder About.

A Truly Open Mind Means Forcing Our Imaginations To Conform To The Evidence Of Reality, And Not Vice Versa.