... the truth is that when your people don't tell you what you need to know, it's a failure of leadership.

So we have progressed to the point where we can move politicians around faster than light. I'm not sure I see the advantage.

What would happen is that people like Geroge and Alyx would grow old and die chasing a dream. Although there were probably worse things to do with one's life.

The queen of virtues is the recognition of one's own flaws.

All of the important things ... will turn out to be universally shared. It's why there will be no true aliens.

It is not faith per se that creates the problem; it is conviction, the notion that one cannot be wrong, that opposing views are necessarily invalid and may even be intolerable.

Truth, beaten down, may well rise again. But there's a reason it gets beaten down. Usually, we don't like it very much.