We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance.

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

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.

The impediment to scientific thinking is not, I think, the difficulty of the subject. Complex intellectual feats have been mainstays even of oppressed cultures. Shamans, magicians and theologians are highly skilled in their intricate and arcane arts. No, the impediment is political and hierarchical.

It means nothing to be open to a proposition we don't understand.

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.