Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, once the sheer isolation of the Earth becomes known, a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.

I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible ... the establishment defends itself by complicating everything to the point of incomprehensibility.

Here we are in this wholly fantastic universe with scarcely a clue as to whether our existence has any real significance.

The universe is a put-up job.

The suggestion that petroleum might have arisen from some transformation of squashed fish or biological detritus is surely the silliest notion to have been entertained by substantial numbers of persons over an extended period of time.

Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.