[One's] inability to invalidate your hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true.

We live in an in-between universe where things change all right...but according to patterns, rules, or as we call them, laws of nature.

You're capable of such beautiful dreams and such horrible nightmares.

An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such compelling evidence. Because God can be relegated to remote times and places and to ultimate causes, we would have to know a great deal more about the universe than we do now to be sure that no such God exists. To be certain of the existence of God and to be certain of the nonexistence of God seem to me to be the confident extremes in a subject so riddled with doubt and uncertainty as to inspire very little confidence indeed.

It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology.

Every star may be a sun to someone.