The whole principle (censorship) is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.

God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good, and is no sillier than any other theology.

People usually believe anything that they are told early and often.

I came, I saw, she conquered." The original Latin seems to have been garbled.

I believe in - I am proud to belong to - the United States.

Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.

But space travel can't ease the pressure on a planet grown too crowded not even with today's ships and probably not with any future ships-because stupid people won't leave the slopes of their home volcano even when it starts to smoke and rumble. What space travel does do is drain off the best brains: those smart enough to see a catastrophe before it happens, and with the guts to pay the price-abandon home, wealth, friends, relatives, everything-and go. That's a tiny fraction of one percent. But that's enough.