We came into a homeless frontier, a place where we were not welcome, where nothing that lived was welcome, where thought and logic were abhorrent and we were frightened, but we went into this place because the universe lay before us, and if we were to know ourselves, we must know the universe

Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth .

Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?

I'm just a propagandist and a propagandist doesn't have to know what he is talking about, just so he talks about it most convincingly.

Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.

Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.

The chain of life runs smoothly from one generation to the next and none of the links stand out except here and there a link one sees by accident.