The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.

Absolutely no religious rites of any kind, relating to any religious faith, should be associated with my funeral.

Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference we should each be treated with appropriate respect.

They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed.

The best proof that there's intelligent life in the universe is that it hasn't come here.

In this single galaxy of ours there are eighty-seven thousand million suns. [...] In challenging it, you would be like ants attempting to label and classify all the grains of sand in all the deserts of the world. [...] It is a bitter thought, but you must face it. The planets you may one day possess. But the stars are not for man.

When one has to ask, "Am I really in love?" the answer is always "No".