In the long run, there are no secrets. in science. The universe will not cooperate in a cover-up.

Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction.

No one of intelligence resents the inevitable.

Don't mess up the environment until you're quite sure what you're doing.

Across the gulf of centuries, the blind smile of Homer is turned upon our age. Along the echoing corridors of time, the roar of the rockets merges now with the creak of the wind-taut rigging. For somewhere in the world today, still unconscious of his destiny, walks the boy who will be the first Odysseus of the Age of Space.

The Earth would only have to move a few million kilometers sunward-or starward-for the delicate balance of climate to be destroyed. The Antarctic icecap would melt and flood all low-lying land; or the oceans would freeze and the whole world would be locked in eternal winter. Just a nudge in either direction would be enough.

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.