You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself.

Civilization will reach maturity only when it learns to value diversity of character and of ideas.

All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe.

Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly.

The information age has been driven and dominated by technopreneurs. We now have to apply these technologies in saving lives, improving livelihoods and lifting millions of people out of squalor, misery and suffering. In other words, our focus must now move from the geeks to the meek.

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

Astronomy, as nothing else can do, teaches men humility.