Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, we shall, in an emotional sense, acquire an additional dimension.

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics.

It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.

Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, once the sheer isolation of the Earth becomes known, a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.

In short there is not a shred of objective evidence to support the hypothesis that life began in an organic soup here on the Earth.

There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.

I have always thought it curious that, while most scientists claim to eschew religion, it actually dominates their thoughts more than it does the clergy.

Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.

The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of.

Things are the way they are because they were the way they were.

The more we read, the more we discover.

You don't have to have an attitude if you're famous.

Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe.

So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.

The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.

I'm not a fundamentalist, though I'm fundamental in all of my doctrine.

I can't avoid writing. It's a sort of nervous tic I have developed since I gave up needlepoint.

It's your ability to inspire and uplift other people that matters, not your ability to outdo them.

Sexual fulfillment goals, to make them happen, you have to work on them as a project. I don't think it's a bad thing.

No young man ever thinks he shall die.