To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

Of course there are worlds. Millions of them! Every star you see has worlds, and most of those you don't see.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.

... you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.

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.

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