Beauty doesn't have to be about anything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter, is Mozart's Twenty-third Piano Concerto about?

Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still know where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.

God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.

Life,” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.

The books people are writing today, they're too long. You get a little bit of plot, and then pages and pages of Creative Writing. They teach classes in how to do this. They should teach classes in how to stop!

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.