I would be very ashamed of my civilization if we did not try to find out if there is life in outer space.

Valid criticism does you a favor.

I hold that popularization of science is successful if, at first, it does no more than spark the sense of wonder.

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

The fact that so little of the findings of modern science is prefigured in Scripture to my mind casts further doubt on it divine inspiration.

We are the first species to have taken our evolution into our own hands.

National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars.