Every religion seems like a fantasy to outsiders, but as holy truth to those of the faith.

Old people think young people haven't learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.

With both people and computers on the job, computer error can be more quickly tracked down and corrected by people and, conversely, human error can be more quickly corrected by computers. What it amounts to is that nothing serious can happen unless human error and computer error take place simultaneously. And that hardly ever happens.

There are so many benefits to be derived from space exploration and exploitation; why not take what seems to me the only chance of escaping what is otherwise the sure destruction of all that humanity has struggled to achieve for 50,000 years?

True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily "dumbing down."

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are best capable of developing values that succeed in satisfying human needs and serving human interests.