I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent.
I’m sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It’s just been too intelligent to come here.
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.
Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.
I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.
At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved – if it can be achieved at all – within the next few hundred years.
Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction.
I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I want to be remembered most as a writer – one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.
Now I’m a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.
Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological.
All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.
We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 – and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?
Sometimes I think we’re alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we’re not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn’t want to give up power.