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

[A]ll knowledge is one. When a light brightens and illuminates a corner of a room, it adds to the general illumination of the entire room. Over and over again, scientific discoveries have provided answers to problems that had no apparent connection with the phenomena that gave rise to the discovery.

In the presence of total Darkness, the mind finds it absolutely necessary to create light.

Although we will hate and fight the machines, we will be supplanted anyway, and rightly so, for the intelligent machines to which we will give birth may, better than we, carry on the striving toward the goal of understanding and using the Universe, climbing to heights we ourselves could never aspire to.

True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily "dumbing down."

All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch.

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