If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize that we were alone?
It means nothing to be open to a proposition we don't understand.
Modern Darwinism makes it abundantly clear that many less ruthless traits, some not always admired by robber barons and Fuhrers - altruism, general intelligence, compassion - may be the key to survival.
The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood
We are all star stuff.
After I give lectures-on almost any subject-I am often asked, "Do you believe in UFOs?" I'm always struck by how the question is phrased, the suggestion that this is a matter of belief and not evidence. I'm almost never asked, "How good is the evidence that UFOs are alien spaceships?"