“The Present is…a series of concentric circles, with its axis perpendicular to linear spacetime…”

“Based on what we think we know about biogenesis, there should be life on Mars. If it turns out that there isn’t, somebody’s “got some ‘xplainin’ to do, Lucy.'"

“Divinity is a language unto itself, or as a five-year-old grandchild once explained to me, ‘God is outside the numbers’.”

“The most important thing we’ve learned is that we know so much less than we thought we knew.”

“Everything I needed to know about cosmology, I learned watching my grandchildren play with blocks.”

“God is ‘special’ only to that extent that in God, A and Ω are one…God is what it means to initiate and what it means to culminate.”

“Take Vegas! The casino’s ‘edge’ is as little as 1% on some bets. At those odds, I should be able to play forever…but probability is not actuality.”

“What sort of God would throw candy wrappers on a pristine beach? I mean, burning someone at the stake, well maybe, but littering, no way!”

"So, it turns out that the universe did not have a lot of options when it came to structuring time."

I’ll take the wisdom of Yogi Berra over that of Bill Clinton any day: Whatever is, is!

You say, "Big Bang;" we say, "Genesis." You say, "Constantine;" we say, "Ascension."

Thirty years after the death of Jesus…St. Paul quoted an already ancient Christology…a TOE.

Confining events within a single order of magnitude reinforces our tendency to categorize events as past, present, or future. After all, if a quantum of experience can be no more than one second long, almost everything must seem past or future from that perspective.

“I once filled the entire universe, but for less than a second. I am 100,000 times hotter than the center of the sun, but I am still a liquid. I am denser than anything in the universe, except a black hole, but I flow 20 times more easily and smoothly than water. Who am I?”