He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool.

Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity — distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

We live in strange times. We also live in strange places, each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universe are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own.

The future of computer power is pure simplicity.