Social control is best managed through fear.

The rock, for its part, is not even aware of our existence because we are alive for only a brief instant of its lifespan. To it, we are like flashes in the dark.

The past history of human belief is a cautionary tale. We have killed thousands of our fellow human beings because we believed they had signed a contract with the devil, and had become witches. We still kill more than a thousand people each year for witchcraft. In my view, there is only one hope for humankind to emerge from what Carl Sagan called "the demon-haunted world" of our past. That hope is science.

He prays because he knows he doesn't control it. He's at the mercy of it.

Geniuses never pay attention.

We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so.

To give up responsibility for our lives is not healthy.