Entropy requires no maintenance.

The land monopoly always starts with conquest. Shot and shell are the coins of purchase, as Herbert Spencer said. Except by force of arms, nobody "owns" the earth, anymore than the moon, the planets, the stars themselves.

What the thinker thinks, the prover proves.

There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.

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

The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not appealing to the average primate, who instead invents emotional games (soap opera and grand opera dramatics).

It's not true unless it makes you laugh, but you don't understand it until it makes you weep.