We are the custodians of life's meaning.

The method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is far more important than the findings of science.

There are huge advertising budgets only when there's no difference between the products. If the products really were different, people would buy the one that's better. Advertising teaches people not to trust their judgment. Advertising teaches people to be stupid.

The cosmos is all there is, all there ever was, and all there ever will be.

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

We are made of starstuff.

The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.