There is no doubt that parts of the world are getting warmer, but the warming is not global.

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?

The greatest unsolved mysteries are the mysteries of our existence as conscious beings in a small corner of a vast universe.

If you want to have a program for moving out into the universe, you have to think in centuries not in decades.

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.

The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm.

Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.

In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.

So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh.

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

Bad ages to live through are good ages to learn from.

If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it's only becasue it doesn't know that the fire can consume it.

In their quest to hit cloud Nine, our young men and women intheir prime are gradually finding themselves on ground Zero, emotionally battered, academically bankrupt and medicallyparalyzed.

The reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over.

A nerd is someone who uses a telephone to talk to other people about telephones.

I realized the structure in a collection is how they're put together. Structuring the collection became the art of it for me. Because the stories had all been written.

A specialist is someone who does everything else worse.

The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.

Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons.

The belief that consciousness extends beyond death is surely to put more belief in the permanence of self, not less. That seems to me a comfort that you're allowing yourself.