This is my prediction for the future: Whatever hasn't happened will happen, and no one will be safe from it.

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

It seems to me immensely unlikely that mind is a mere by-product of matter. For if my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions of atoms in my brain I have no reason to suppose that my beliefs are true. They may be sound chemically, but that does not make them sound logically. And hence I have no reason for supposing my brain to be composed of atoms.

Science is as yet in its infancy, and we can foretell little of the future save that the thing that has not been is the thing that shall be; that no beliefs, no values, no institutions are safe.

This is my prediction for the future: Whatever hasn't happened will happen, and no one will be safe from it.

There are 400,000 species of beetles on this planet, but only 8,000 species of mammals.