The old appeals to racial, sexual and religious chauvinism to rabid nationalist fervor, are beginning not to work.

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

A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysteries still to be resolved. In a Universe tens of billions of light-years across and some ten or fifteen billion years old, this may be the case forever. We are constantly stumbling on new surprises

Some racists still reject the plain testimony written in the DNA that all the races are not only human but nearly indistinguishable. . . .

The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.

Too much openness and you accept every notion, idea, and hypothesis-which is tantamount to knowing nothing. Too much skepticism-especially rejection of new ideas before they are adequately tested-and you're not only unpleasantly grumpy, but also closed to the advance of science. A judicious mix is what we need.