"The gap between a dumb and a clever person may appear large from an anthropocentric perspective, yet in a less paroch…"

"To say that Nature displays intelligence doesn't make you a Christian fundamentalist. Einstein said as much, and a fa…"

"The really amazing thing is not that life on Earth is balanced on a knife-edge, but that the entire universe is balan…"

"Matter in quantum mechanics is not an inert substance but an active agent, constantly making choices between alternat…"

"Science does not accept Aristotelian styles of explanation, that a stone falls because of its nature... it likes to b…"

"What we hear about eternal inflation or the string landscape, seems somehow unavoidably to lead to some kind of multi…"

"Why was there a Big Bang? What, if anything, came before? What mechanisms generated the exponential inflation of the …"

"I think the Anthropic Cosmological Principle brings to us an idea perhaps as old as humanity itself: that we are not …"

"Until recently, it might have seemed that we were an unhappy bit of mildew on a heavenly body whirling in space among…"

"There ought to be something very special about the boundary conditions of the universe and what can be more special t…"