Whether or not you can become great at something, you can always become better.

There is a theorem that colloquially translates, You cannot comb the hair on a bowling ball. ... Clearly, none of these mathematicians had Afros, because to comb an Afro is to pick it straight away from the scalp. If bowling balls had Afros, then yes, they could be combed without violation of mathematical theorems.

Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.

How much would you pay...for the Universe?

FM signals and those of broadcast television...travel out to space at the speed of light. Any eavesdropping alien civilization will know all about our TV programs (probably a bad thing), will hear all our FM music (probably a good thing), and know nothing of the politics of AM talk-show hosts (probably a safe thing).

When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually it's the beginning of time.

I bought it, I read it, and I heeded its advice. I remain unabducted.