Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short that you can't even measure them.
Travel at faster than the speed of light certainly can have dramatic implications that are difficult to understand, such as time travel.
A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen how to understand some difficult scientific idea.
You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper.
Writing a play, you have to retain it all in your head - you need more time. With prose, you can snatch an hour here, an hour there.
This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.
This time at Birmingham turned me into a general biologist, and ever since then I have always tried to take a biological approach to any research project that I have undertaken.
Be careful how you spend your time: Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of.
I was formed by 'The Forsyte Saga' marathon. There was something about seeing all those events telescoped that was unbelievably moving: that sense of time as something that can be tinkered with.
I think I'm a writer, and it's my job. People in other professions are expected to do their jobs all the time. Why shouldn't I?
My usual route is, I do a play at South Coast Rep, then there's time between and I revise it, and then I take it to New York.
The 20s are like the stem cell of human development: the pluripotent moment when any of several outcomes is possible. Decisions and actions during this time have lasting ramifications.
Every physical system registers information, and just by evolving in time, by doing its thing, it changes that information, transforms that information, or, if you like, processes that information.
If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe evolved in time, complex systems arose out of the natural dynamics of the universe.
In the past, the Republican Party has depended on unified support at election time from Evangelical Christians. But times are changing!
Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time.
I see that idea that we need a new form as something critical. I mean, we do need to invent and not be benchmarking all the time. That's important to me.
A common religion is not possible for India, but a recognition of a common basis for all religions, and the growth of a liberal, tolerant spirit in religious matters, are possible.
I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.
With me, personal relationships are like my religion. I care that deeply about them. I am the complete opposite of a manipulative smoothie.
Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.
