You mean am I for it or against it? You think this is a key question I'm going to be asked on Vega, and you want to make sure I give the right answer? Okay. Overpopulation is why I'm in favor of homosexuality and a celibate clergy. A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

Extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence to make them believable.

If you want to make a [rhubarb] pie from scratch, first you have to create the universe.

Every cell is a triumph of natural selection, and we’re made of trillions of cells. Within us, is a little universe.

This oak tree and me, we're made of the same stuff.

All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science. But that passion is unrequited. Surveys suggest that some 95% of Americans are "scientifically illiterate." That's...the same fraction...of slaves who were illiterate before the Civil War.

Your god is too small for my universe.