I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book.
In the future, you'll simply jump into your car, turn on the Internet, turn on a movie and sit back and relax and turn on the automatic pilot, and the car will drive itself.
I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness.
Jesus viewed his own destiny - to be glorified in and through death - as an expression of a kind of cosmic principle: the pathway to life runs through death.
Genome design is going to be a key part of the future. That's why we need fast, cheap, accurate DNA synthesis, so you can make a lot of iterations of something and test them.
It was Einstein's dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains everything. However, physicists in Einstein's day hadn't made enough progress in understanding the forces of nature for that to be a realistic goal.
Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.
Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.
What we believe about heaven and hell is incredibly important because it exposes what we believe about who God is and what God is like.
For a lot of people in our world today, God has become about believing the right stuff so you don't get in trouble.
I believe God gives people the right to say no, to resist, to refuse, to reject, to cling to their sins, to cling to their version of their story.
Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself.
I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.
Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people died?'
Perhaps we would do well to listen to the likes of Rabbi Harold Kushner, who contends that God is not really as powerful as we have claimed.
When there is conflict between what God requires and the demands of the government, each of us has an important decision to make concerning taxes.
The children of believing parents, at least their next and immediate seed, even of us Gentiles now under the gospel, are included by God within the covenant of grace.
Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who look for God but do not come to Church.
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
