The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them.

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

Even if we never reach the stars by our own efforts, in the millions of years that lie ahead it is almost certain that the stars will come to us. Isolationism is neither a practical policy on the national or cosmic scale. And when the first contact with the outer universe is made, one would like to think that Mankind played an active and not merely a passive role-that we were the discoverers, not the discovered.

One theory which can no longer be taken very seriously is that UFOs are interstellar spaceships.

Until we get rid of religion, we won't be able to conduct the search for God.

The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

You will find men like him in all of the world's religions. They know that we represent reason and science, and, however confident they may be in their beliefs, they fear that we will overthrow their gods. Not necessarily through any deliberate act, but in a subtler fashion. Science can destroy a religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistance of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.