I don't believe that the ultimate theory will come by steady work along existing lines. We need something new. We can't predict what that will be or … - Stephen Hawking

"In the eighteenth century, philosophers considered the whole of human knowledge, including science, to be their field and discussed questions such as: Did the universe have a beginning? However, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, science became too technical and mathematical for the philosophers, or anyone else except a few specialists. Philosophers reduced the scope of their inquiries so much that Wittgenstein, the most famous philosopher of this century, said, "The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language." What a comedown from the great tradition of philosophy from Aristotle to Kant!"

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.

In a world that is in chaos politically, socially and environmentally, how can the human race sustain another 100 years?