Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.

No one suggests that writing about science will turn the entire world into a model of judgment and creative thought. It will be enough if they spread the knowledge as widely as possible.

It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

Now remember, kids, the internet is serious business.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.

And in man is a three-pound brain which, as far as we know, is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter in the universe.