The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be."

Thank you very Much, I enjoyed myself

Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion

If all of this, all the life of a stream of water, can be nothing but a pile of atoms, how much more is possible?

Listen, I mean that from my knowledge of the world that I see around me, I think that it is much more likely that the reports of flying saucers are the results of the known irrational characteristics of terrestrial intelligence than of the unknown rational efforts of extra-terrestrial intelligence.

We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had the wrong idea first, and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified manner, what you actually did in order to get to do the work, although, there has been in these days, some interest in this kind of thing.

We are not to tell nature what she’s gotta be... She's always got better imagination than we have.