I find the universe so staggering that I just don't have any faith in my ability to grasp it.

There is one universal sex law: Sex shall not be unregulated.

We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.

Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and "progress," everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man's refusal to bow to Authority.

Since things are moving faster and faster, we cannot afford the amount of stupidity that we used to be able to tolerate.

Any model we make does not describe the universe it describes what our brains are capable of saying at this time.

Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My current model" -- or grid, or map, or reality-tunnel -- "contains the whole universe and will never need to be revised." In terms of the history of science and knowledge in general, this appears absurd and arrogant to me, and I am perpetually astonished that so many people still manage to live with such a medieval attitude.