One should love animals. They are so tasty.

Although I cannot move, and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind, I am free.

A model is a good model if first it interprets a wide range of observations in terms of a simple and elegant model, and second if the model makes definite predictions that can be tested, and possibly falsified, by observation.

I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I'm an optimist. We will reach out to the stars.

In fact, if one considers the possible constants and laws that could have emerged, the odds against a universe that produced life like ours are immense.

The "Powers That Be" are not smart enough to engineer Armageddon, but they may yet be stupid enough. If governments are involved in covering up the knowledge of aliens, then they are doing a much better job of it than they seem to do at anything else.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.