The thing about lucid dreams is that it's not like the real world where you are constrained by all sorts of things, including the laws of physics - y….

Ultimate questions will always lie beyond the scope of empirical science as it is..

No attempt to explain the world, either scientifically or theologically, can be considered successful until it accounts for the paradoxical conjuncti….

The laws of physics ... seem to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design... The universe must have a purpose..

Through my scientific work I have come to believe more and more strongly that the physical universe is put together with an ingenuity so astonishing ….

Through conscious beings the universe has generated self-awareness. This can be no trivial detail, no minor byproduct of mindless, purposeless forces….

The way life manages information involves a logical structure that differs fundamentally from mere complex chemistry. Therefore chemistry alone will ….

People take it for granted that the physical world is both ordered and intelligible. The underlying order in nature - the laws of physics - are simpl….

Science may explain the world, but we still have to explain science. The laws which enable the universe to come into being spontaneously seem themsel….

The temptation to believe that the Universe is the product of some sort of design, a manifestation of subtle aesthetic and mathematical judgment, is ….

Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very laws of nature the….

Many billions of years will elapse before the smallest, youngest stars complete their nuclear burning and shrink into white dwarfs. But with slow, ag….

The burgeoning field of computer science has shifted our view of the physical world from that of a collection of interacting material particles to on….

Wheeler hopes that we can discover, within the context of physics, a principle that will enable the universe to come into existence "of its own accor….

We will never fully explain the world by appealing to something outside it that must simply be accepted on faith, be it an unexplained God or an unex….

Studying cancer could provide huge insights for astrobiologists into the nature of life itself..

It will be in the convergence of evolutionary biology, developmental biology and cancer biology that the answer to cancer will lie. Nor will this con….

Mathematics is universal. It's discovered by human beings, but the rules of mathematics are the same throughout the universe and the laws of the univ….

Science can proceed only if the scientist adopts an essentially theological worldview. ..even the most atheistic scientist accepts as an act of faith….

In the 1990s I began to study the prospects that life could spread from Mars to Earth or maybe Earth to Mars and that maybe life began on Mars and ca….

Should we find a second form of life right here on our doorstep, we could be confident that life is a truly cosmic phenomenon. If so, there may well ….