The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. However valuable-even necessary-that may have been in enforcing good behavior on primitive peoples, their association is now counterproductive. Yet at the very moment when they should be decoupled, sanctimonious nitwits are calling for a return to morals based on superstition.

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

It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

No utopia can ever give satisfaction to everyone, all the time. As their material conditions improve, men raise their sights and become discontented with power and possessions that once would have seemed beyond their wildest dreams. And even when the external world has granted all it can, there still remain the searchings of the mind and the longings of the heart.

The moment when one first meets a great work of art has an impact that can never again be recaptured.

Once you can reproduce a phenomenon, you are well on the way to understanding it.