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?

Science doesn't purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism... for testing your thoughts against the universe.

Oh, for a pin that would puncture pretension!

The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers.

However much the creationist leaders might hammer away at their scientific and philosophical points, they would be helpless and a laughing-stock if that were all they had. It is religion that recruits their squadrons. Tens of millions of Americans, who neither know nor understand the actual arguments for - of even against - evolution, march in the army of the night, their Bibles held high. And they are a strong and frightening force, impervious to, and immunized against, the feeble lance of mere reason.

Now remember, kids, the internet is serious business.

The essential building block is...the true love that is impossible to define for those who have never experienced it and unnecessary to define for those who have.