If Our Species Is To Survive, Our

Philosophy Used To Be A Field That Had Content, But Then Natural Philosophy Became Physics, And Physics Has Only Continued To Make Inroads. Every Time Theres A Leap In Physics, It Encroaches On These Areas That Philosophers Have Carefully Sequestered Away To Themselves, And So Then You Have This Natural Resentment On The Part Of Philosophers.

Empty Space Is A Boiling, Bubbling Brew Of Virtual Particles That Pop In And Out Of Existence In A Time Scale So Short That You Can't Even Measure Them.

There Is A Maxim About The Universe Which I Always Tell My Students: That Which Is Not Explicitly Forbidden Is Guaranteed To Occur.

As A Scientist, I Don't Believe Anything. Science Shouldn't Use The Word Belief. There Are Things More Likely And Less Likely. Science Can Say Nothing With Absolute Certainty.

For Many, To Live In A Universe That May Have No Purpose, And No Creator, Is Unthinkable.