"The universe is a cruel, uncaring void. The key to being happy isn't to search for meaning. It's to just keep yourself busy with unimportant nonsense, and eventually, you'll be dead."

"We are very, very small, but we are profoundly significant."

"In the proof stage, I nearly cut that last sentence of the book. Had I done so, the sales might have been halved."

"The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect an underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired."

"I would like to know the mind of God—everything else is details."