If you expected science to give all the answers to the wonderful questions about what we are, where we're going, what's the meaning of the universe and so on, then I think you could easily become disillusioned and then look for some mystic answer to these problems you're exploring.

We're trying to find out as much as we can about the world. People say to me: Are you looking for the ultimate laws of physics? No, I'm not. I'm just looking to find out more about the world, and if it turns out there is a simple ultimate law that explains everything, so be it, that would be very nice to discover. If it turns out it's like an onion with millions of layers, and we're just sick and tired of looking at the layers, then that's the way it is. But whatever way it comes out, its nature is there and she's going to come out the way she is. And therefore when we go to investigate it we shouldn't pre-decide what it is we're trying to do, except to find out more about it.

So altogether I can't believe the special stories that have been made up about our relationship to the universe at large. Because they seem to be too local to provincial. The earth, he came to the earth; one of the aspects of God came to the earth mind you, and look at what's out there. It isn't in proportion.

But also another thing, it has to do with the question of how do you find out if something's true, and if you have all these theories of the different religions have all different theories about the thing, then you begin to wonder. Once you start doubting, which I think is to me is a very fundamental part of my soul is to doubt and to ask, when you doubt and ask it gets a little harder to believe.

I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything and the many things I don't know anything about. But I don't have to know an answer, I don't have I don't feel frightened by not knowing things by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell possibly.

It doesn't frighten me.

If you expected science to give all the answers to the wonderful questions about what we are, where we're going, what's the meaning of the universe and so on, then I think you could easily become disillusioned and then look for some mystic answer to these problems you're exploring.

We're trying to find out as much as we can about the world. People say to me: Are you looking for the ultimate laws of physics? No, I'm not. I'm just looking to find out more about the world, and if it turns out there is a simple ultimate law that explains everything, so be it, that would be very nice to discover. If it turns out it's like an onion with millions of layers, and we're just sick and tired of looking at the layers, then that's the way it is. But whatever way it comes out, its nature is there and she's going to come out the way she is. And therefore when we go to investigate it we shouldn't pre-decide what it is we're trying to do, except to find out more about it.

So altogether I can't believe the special stories that have been made up about our relationship to the universe at large. Because they seem to be too local to provincial. The earth, he came to the earth; one of the aspects of God came to the earth mind you, and look at what's out there. It isn't in proportion.

But also another thing, it has to do with the question of how do you find out if something's true, and if you have all these theories of the different religions have all different theories about the thing, then you begin to wonder. Once you start doubting, which I think is to me is a very fundamental part of my soul is to doubt and to ask, when you doubt and ask it gets a little harder to believe.

I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything and the many things I don't know anything about. But I don't have to know an answer, I don't have I don't feel frightened by not knowing things by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell possibly.

It doesn't frighten me.