Issuing an insurance policy against abduction by aliens seems a pretty safe bet.

Why do we remember the past, but not the future?

In effect, we have redefined the task of science to be the discovery of laws that will enable us to predict events up to the limits set by the uncertainty principle.

[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.

Physics as we know it will be over in six months - Max Born

Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.

The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression. It may have had survival advantage in caveman days, to get more food, territory or a partner with whom to reproduce, but now it threatens to destroy us all.