People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence.

I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it.

Why this reluctance to make the change? We fear the process of reeducation.

On Earth, we are unmanned by our longing for a pastoral past that never really existed; and that, if it had existed, could never exist again...on the Moon, there is no past to long for or dream about. There is no direction but forward.

It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.

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

It is no defense of superstition and pseudoscience to say that it brings solace and comfort to people. . . . If solace and comfort are how we judge the worth of something, then consider that tobacco brings solace and comfort to smokers; alcohol brings it to drinkers; drugs of all kinds bring it to addicts; the fall of cards and the run of horses bring it to gamblers; cruelty and violence bring it to sociopaths. Judge by solace and comfort only and there is no behavior we ought to interfere with.