There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.

Never schedule a board meeting on Wednesday because it kills two weekends.

They like life alright, but that they would like it even better if they could know that it was going to end sometime.

The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.

Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful.

I am of course a skeptic about the divinity of Christ and a scorner of the notion that there is a God who cares about how we are or what we do. ... Religious skeptics often become very bitter towards the end, as did Mark Twain. ... I know why I will become bitter. I will finally realize that I have had it right all along: that I will not see God, that there is no heaven or Judgement Day.

Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules — and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress.