I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.

So, then, what is style? There are two chief aspects of any piece of writing: 1) what you say and 2) how you say it. The former is "content" and the latter is "style."

When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.

So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe.

A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will.

It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.