One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children.

Thus the recent rapid evolution of human intelligence is not only the cause of but also the only conceivable solution to the many serious problems that beset us.

Has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? . . . No other human institution comes close.

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

.. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the 'Momentary' masters of a 'Fraction' of a 'Dot'

The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster.

It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.