英国女王伊丽莎白二世来华访问时想见他，他说

未来属于那些能够以不同方式想象它的人。

I think people believe in heaven because they don’t like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and they don’t like the idea that other people will move into their house and put their things into the rubbish.

一个奇怪的事实是，根据从生物学或地球物理学的角度出发，对地球史前条件会得出完全相反的结论，这反映了我们目前知识的不完整状态。