My view is that if there is no evidence for it, then forget about it. An agnostic is somebody who doesn’t believe in something until there is evidence for it, so I’m agnostic.

Since World War II, Japan has spawned enormous numbers of new religions featuring the supernatural.... In Thailand, diseases are treated with pills manufactured from pulverized sacred Scripture. Witches are today being burned in South Africa.... The worldwide TM [Transcendental Meditation] organization has an estimated valuation of $3 billion. For a fee, they promise to make you invisible, to enable you to fly.

If we say that God has always been, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always been?

I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.

Any civilization that doesn't develop space travel dies.

We are, in the most profound sense, children of the Cosmos.

The open road still softly calls.