Before the current decade ends, fee-paying passengers will be experiencing suborbital flights aboard privately funded vehicles. . . . It won't be too long before bright young men and women set their eyes on careers in Earth orbit and say: "I want to work 200 kilometers from home-straight up!"

Only small minds are impressed by large numbers.

Any path to knowledge is a path to God-or Reality, whichever word one prefers to use

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.

Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.

Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?