If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns.

When you finally understand the universe, it will not only be stranger than you imagine, it will be stranger than you can imagine.

And because, in all the Galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than Mind, they encouraged its dawning everywhere. They became farmers in the fields of stars; they sowed, and sometimes they reaped. And sometimes, dispassionately, they had to weed.

Science is the only religion of mankind.

No one of intelligence resents the inevitable.

Religion is a by-product of fear. For much of human history it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn’t killing people in the name of god a pretty good definition of insanity?

Until we get rid of religion, we won't be able to conduct the search for God.