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

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.

I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent.

But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.

My objection to organized religion is the premature conclusion to ultimate truth that it represents.

One can imagine a time when men who still inhabit organic bodies are regarded with pity by those who have passed on to an infinitely richer mode of existence, capable of throwing their consciousness or sphere of attention instantaneously to any point on land, sea, or sky where there is a suitable sensing organ. In adolescence we leave childhood behind; one day there may be a second and more portentous adolescence, when we bid farewell to the flesh.

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