Naturally, since [the Sumerians] didn't know what caused the flood anymore than we do, they blamed the gods. (That's the advantage of religion. You're never short an explanation for anything.)

This idea [standardized time zones] was first advanced and fought for by Sandford Fleming of Canada and Charles F. Dowd of the United States. I mention them chiefly because like so many benefactors of mankind they have been rewarded by total obscurity.

Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

Nonsense! The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.

Theories are not so much wrong as incomplete

Never judge your own writing. You're not fit to do so.

There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.