"Here is a list of some of the questions and their short answers (...) The interesting thing is to recognize how total…"

"If you are going to be scientistic, you will have to be comfortable with a certain amount of nihilism."

"Physics is by no means "finished". But the part of it that explains almost everything in the universe—including us—is…"

"Why is there anything at all? or as the question is famously put, Why is there something rather than nothing? Physics…"

"A hundred years ago, it became clear that most events at the level of the subatomic are random, uncaused, indetermini…"

"the answer to the persistent question, What is the purpose of the universe? is quite simply: There is none."

"Biology is usually a lot more fun than physics. It's a lot easier to understand, and there's sex."

"Biologists have a label for the neat tricks that enable living things to take care of the four Fs of survival—feeding…"

"We have to acknowledge (to ourselves, at least) that many questions we want the "right" answers to just don't have an…"

"Scientism starts with the idea that the physical facts fix all the facts, including the biological ones. These in tur…"