Vegetation is really controlling what happens...whereas the emphasis in the climate models has always been on the atmosphere.

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.

Time itself made all things rare.

What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.

When you go to sleep, where do you really go?

I've got a stomach now as well as a behind. And I mean - well, you can't pull it in both ways, can you? ... I've made it a rule to pull in my stomach and let my behind look after itself.

We cannot survive spiritually with one foot in the Church and the other in the world.

Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.

There is no corruption but mere stealing in Nigeria.

Whitecaps in profusion all around me, but somehow in your eyes I found the strength to sail upon that raging sea.

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.