We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying us about...It is the human nervous system itself.

I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.

It is a great privilege to be conscious in this universe. Those who understand, shine like stars.

Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.

Belief Systems contradict both science and ordinary "common sense." B.S. contradicts science, because it claims certitude and science can never achieve certitude: it can only say, "This model"- or theory, or interpretation of the data- "fits more of the facts known at this date than any rival model." We can never know if the model will fit the facts that might come to light in the next millennium or even in the next week.

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

My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.