There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.

Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it.

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.

Science is the only religion of mankind.

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

Then he [The Star Child] waited, marshaling his thoughts and brooding over his still untested powers. For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next. But he would think of something.

Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened.