Occupation: Scientist Birth: October 5, 1966
We are not significant on the cosmic scale..
The asymmetry of time, the arrow that points from past to future, plays an unmistakable role in our everyday lives: it accounts for why we cannot tur….
Just the idea that we, these little collections of atoms and molecules, are part of the world, but a part that can look at the rest of the world and ….
All the stuff we've ever seen in the laboratory, all the kinds of particles and matter and energy, that only makes up 5 percent of our universe..
There's no verbs before time itself exists, right? There's no popping into existence, there's no fluctuating, there's no quantum mechanical craziness….
We are not important to the universe. That's the bad news..
The world is not magic - and that's the most magical thing about it..
The fact that you can remember yesterday but not tomorrow is because of entropy. The fact that you're always born young and then you grow older, and ….
We seek an understanding of the laws of nature and of our particular universe in which everything makes sense to us. We do not want to be reduced to ….
The speed of time is 1 hour per hour, no matter what else is going on in the universe..
God is not described in equations..
There is no such thing as outside the universe, as far as we can tell..
Nothing in the fact that there was a first moment in time necessitates that an external something is required to bring the universe about at that mom….
Scientifically speaking, the existence of God is an untenable hypothesis. It's not well-defined, it's completely unnecessary to fit the data, and it ….
We are looking for a complete, coherent, and simple understanding of reality. Given what we know about the universe, there seems to be no reason to i….