Ignore ignorance? You might as well withhold medicine from a very sick patient. Not only will the patient get worse, the disease will spread.

The most dangerous aspect of religion is its tendency to glorify the absurd and justify the abhorrent.

Obsoletes and absolutes are the stock in trade of religions that place their faith in an 'unchanging' god while faced with the reality of an ever-changing world.

If we subject religious claims to a lesser degree of scrutiny, we should not be surprised if religious people subject us to a greater degree of servitude.

To be right is just one more reason not to achieve any success.

The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.

Trust not too much to appearances.

The soul is the ancestral animals. The body is their knowledge.

Billions and billions.

I have for the first time found what I can truly love- I have found you. You are my sympathy-my better self-my good angel-I am bound to you with a strong attachment.

If we stop exploring space, we're going to lose the same part of us that found vaccines and penicillin, the part that searches for cures to cancer and AIDS.

Alex is dead, do you hear me? All of that-what we felt, what it meant- that's done now, okay? Buried. Blown away.

Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.

There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.