Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system.

The natural pattern of current astronomy is provided by the cryptic unity of nature itself (belief in which is the chief act of faith of the scientist).

The big discoveries raise questions that make astronomers work feverishly and argue with an agitation that verges on rudeness.

The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.

But, when tales of the cosmos are told, this period of ours may always be recalled as that in which men first came to realise what a violent universe we inhabit.

Bookshop Customer: 'Who wrote the bible?'Customer's friend: 'Jesus.

My lying is a second skin by now, so easy to forget it's there, so I don't always remember that lying is actually an art, and those who aren't meticulous about it are easily exposed.

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

Gaining insight into one's underlying motives, it seems, is more like a belief conversion than a self-discovery process

Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.

I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity

meditation vs prayer = listening vs talking

There are evils worse than death.

Imagination without initiative would more properly be called idle daydreaming.

There is enough information capacity in a single human cell to store the Encyclopedia Britannica, all 30 volumes of it, three or four times over.