We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still.

I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue.

First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?

There is in this Universe much of what seems to be design.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?

The difference between physics and metaphysics is not that the practitioners of one are smarter than the practitioners of the other. The difference is that the metaphysicist has no laboratory.