>If you expect science to give all the answers to the wonderful questions about what we are where we're going what the meaning of the universe is and so on then I think you could easily become disillusioned and look for some mystic answer to these problems. > >We'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 trying 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, it's nature, she's there and she's going to come out the way she is. > >And therefore when we go to investigate we shouldn't predecide what it is we're trying to do except to find out more about it. > >And 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 too 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. > >And also another thing has to do with the question of how to prove if something's true. And the religions have all these different theories about the thing... then you begin to wonder when you start doubting, which I think to me is a very fundamental part of my soul is to doubt and to ask... And 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 there are many things I don't know anything about. > >But I don't have to know an answer. > >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.