Life cannot have had a random beginning. ... The trouble is that there are about two thousand enzymes, and the chance of obtaining them all in a random trial is only one part in 10 to the 40,000 power, an outrageously small probability that could not be faced even if the whole universe consisted of organic soup.

Things are the way they are because they were the way they were.

A superintellect has monkeyed with physics.

The big bang theory requires a recent origin of the Universe that openly invites the concept of creation.

Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, we shall, in an emotional sense, acquire an additional dimension.

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

Outstanding examples of genius - a Mozart, a Shakespeare, or a Carl Friedrich Gauss - are markers on the path along which our species appears destined to tread.