The sooner we can separate salvageable skeptics from self-righteous absolutists, the sooner we can move along.

We live in a time like dreaming.... The edges of our lives flutter and change as we watch them. Listen to the dream.

The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.

What do I have to say to the universe? A soul ought to have something to say to the universe if it's going to be immortal.

Sitting down and weeping is what women have done for centuries, and it has done no good at all. Nor praying. God has given us the earth. He is not waiting in the next room, ready to fix it for us if we ruin it. If we do not care for it, no one will. On other worlds, other races of men perhaps do better than we have done. He cares for us, but he does not control what we do.

Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.

I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from which the open-minded will flee in dismay.