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.

Space is what stops everything from happening in the same place.

The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labour.

The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion.

A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.

I'm surprised at some technological development, and the realization that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. I think the CD-ROM is the best example of that. The idea of having a whole symphony, or opera, or novel in a little piece of plastic is pretty amazing.

I've been saying for a long time that I'm hoping to find intelligent life in Washington.