The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance

I don't think that the permanence of the individual human soul is an indispensable part of religious thought.

We leave traces of ourselves wherever we go, on whatever we touch.

Given any new technology for transmitting information, we seem bound to use it for great quantities of small talk. We are only saved by music from being overwhelmed by nonsense.

The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance

A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I've never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That's amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that's being taken apart.

It would seem to me... an offense against nature, for us to come on the same scene endowed as we are with the curiosity, filled to overbrimming as we are with questions, and naturally talented as we are for the asking of clear questions, and then for us to do nothing about, or worse, to try to suppress the questions.