“Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize.”

It’s hard to build models of inflation that don’t lead to a multiverse. It’s not impossible, so I think there’s still certainly research that needs to be done.

Everything can be created from nothing.

Why it banged, or what happened before it banged.

Despite its name, the big bang theory is not really a theory of a bang at all.

It is fair to say that the universe is the ultimate free lunch.

It is really only a theory of the aftermath of a bang.

In the context of general relativity, space almost is a substance.

But most models of inflation do lead to a multiverse.

It can bend and twist and stretch, and probably the best way to think about space is to just kind of imagine a big piece of rubber that you can pull and twist and bend.

The Big Bang theory says nothing about what banged.

The recent developments in cosmology strongly suggest that the universe may be the ultimate free lunch.

Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.

The question of the origin of the matter in the universe is no longer thought to be beyond the range of science.

And evidence for inflation will be pushing us in the direction of taking [the idea of a] multiverse seriously.

It’s actually safe to create a universe in your basement.

There’s a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can’t measure. We can’t find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it’s there.

In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.

Formerly I regarded it miserable business to be a Christian, but now I think differently. Once I thought certain things delightful, now I think them vile. Once I thought other things utterly worthless, now I think them most precious. That is a change of mind, and that is repentance.

My hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable.

I don’t take anything personal. I just have a certain file in my head, so Earthlings must be careful with what they say.

We are more than just flesh and bones. There’s a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can’t measure. We can’t find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it’s there.

It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.

There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.