It is my view that the simplest explanation is there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization. There is probably no heaven, and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and for that, I am extremely grateful.

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Aristarchus suspected that this was the case and believed that the stars we see in the night sky are actually nothing more than distant suns.

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I would see the end of physics as we know it, but now I think the wonder of discovery will continue long after I am gone. We are close to some of these answers, but we are not there yet.

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I've noticed that even people who believe in fate look both ways before crossing the street.

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Nothing cannot exist forever.

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Do you ever wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges?

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We should seek the greatest value of our action.

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Scientific discovery may not be better than sex, but the satisfaction lasts longer.

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We live in the most probable of all possible worlds.

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This means that at earlier times objects would have been closer together. In fact, it seemed that there was a time, about ten or twenty thousand million years ago, when they were all at exactly the same place and when, therefore, the density of the universe was infinite.

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