What right do we have to claim, as some might, that human beings are the only inhabitants of our planet blessed with an actual ability to be "aware"?….

I imagine that whenever the mind perceives a mathematical idea, it makes contact with Plato's world of mathematical concepts... When mathematicians c….

Do not be afraid to skip equations (I do this frequently myself)..

Well, I don’t know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I’m no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detai….

And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction where you may be a long way off from what other peo….

Consciousness ... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known..

I'm pretty tenacious when it comes to problems..

This book is about physics and its about physics and its relationship with mathematics and how they seem to be intimately related and to what extent ….

But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality..

My own way of thinking is to ponder long and I hope deeply on problems and for a long time which I keep away for years and years and I never really l….

Understanding is, after all, what science is all about — and science is a great deal more than mindless computation..

As you say, the way string theory requires all these extra dimensions and this comes from certain consistency requirements about how string should be….