One Of The Wonders Of Science Is

That Is, You Can Have Nothingness, Absolute Nothingness For Maybe A Tiny Fraction Of A Second, If A Second Can Be Defined In That Arena, But Then It Falls Apart Into A Something And An Anti-something. And That Something Is Then What We Call The Universe. But Can We Really Understand That Or Put Rigorous Mathematics Or Testable Experiments Against That? Not Yet. So One Of The Big Holy Grail Of Physics Is To Understand Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing.

Nature's Patterns Sometimes Reflect Two Intertwined Features: Fundamental Physical Laws And Environmental Influences. It's Nature's Version Of Nature Versus Nurture.

The Universe Is Incredibly Wondrous, Incredibly Beautiful, And It Fills Me With A Sense That There Is Some Underlying Explanation That We Have Yet To Fully Understand. If Someone Wants To Place The Word 'god' On Those Collections Of Words, It's Ok With Me.

Intelligence Is The Ability To Take In Information From The World And To Find Patterns In That Information That Allow You To Organize Your Perceptions And Understand The External World.

String Theory Has The Potential To Show That All Of The Wondrous Happenings In The Universe - From The Frantic Dance Of Subatomic Quarks To The Stately Waltz Of Orbiting Binary Stars; From The Primordial Fireball Of The Big Bang To The Majestic Swirl Of Heavenly Galaxies - Are Reflections Of One, Grand Physical Principle, One Master Equation.