Science Is Definitely Part Of America's Infrastructure,

I Would Hope That The Publicity Around The Higgs Boson Would Increase The Public Awareness Of Physics And Cosmology.

Beyond Work And Love, I Would Add Two Other Ingredients That Give Meaning To Life. First, To Fulfill Whatever Talents We Are Born With. However Blessed We Are By Fate With Different Abilities And Strengths, We Should Try To Develop Them To The Fullest, Rather Than Allow Them To Atrophy And Decay. ... Second, We Should Try To Leave The World A Better Place Than When We Entered It.

If You Take A Look At The Most Fantastic Schemes That Are Considered Impossible: Teleportation, Warp Drive, Parallel Universes, Other Dimensions, Artificial Intelligence, Ray Guns, You Realize That They Can Be Possible If We Advance Technology A Little Bit.

Scientists Who Have Dedicated Their Lives To Building Machines That Think, Feel That It's Only A Matter Of Time Before Some Form Of Consciousness Is Captured In The Laboratory.

"did God Have A Mother?" Children, When Told That God Made The Heavens And The Earth, Innocently Ask Whether God Had A Mother. This Deceptively Simple Question Has Stumped The Elders Of The Church And Embarrassed The Finest Theologians, Precipitating Some Of The Thorniest Theological Debates Over The Centuries. All The Great Religions Have Elaborate Mythologies Surrounding The Divine Act Of Creation, But None Of Them Adequately Confronts The Logical Paradoxes Inherent In The Question That Even Children Ask.