The universe is a machine where you have been placed, and like a machine the outcome can be known. Every read more

The universe is a machine where you have been placed, and like a machine the outcome can be known. Every battle has already been won or lost. All that is left is for you to choose your side.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.

The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us,is a direct result of read more

The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us,is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

No other success can compensate for failure in the home.

No other success can compensate for failure in the home.

Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us, come because read more

Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us, come because actually deserve them? So now I take comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the Universe

The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it

The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, read more

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference