There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

Somewhere in me is a curiosity sensor. I want to know what's over the next hill. You know, people can live longer without food than without information. Without information, you'd go crazy.

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.

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

It is a good principle in science not to believe any 'fact'---however well attested---until it fits into some accepted frame of reference. Occasionally, of course, an observation can shatter the frame and force the construction of a new one, but that is extremely rare. Galileos and Einsteins seldom appear more than once per century, which is just as well for the equanimity of mankind.

If there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they can't be very important gods.

There is the possibility that humankind can outgrow its infantile tendencies, as I suggested in 'Childhood's End.' But it is amazing how childishly gullible humans are.