We have our hands, we have our brains, we have the challenge all around us, and we have within (from whatever source) the will to strive. That is enough; there is no need to assert 'belief' in that which we do not, as yet, know.

Evolution is a process that never stops. Baboons who fail to exhibit moral behavior do not survive; they wind up as meat for leopards.

Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.

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

They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.

It would take centuries and he must grow and grow and grow, but he was in no hurry--he grokked that Eternity and the ever-beautifully-changing Now were identical.

You got the impression that he never needed to sleep - just ten-thousand-mile checkups and dust him off occasionally.