Our thinking is permeated by our historical myths

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.

The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit.

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

We are but a speck in the Universe Oh, but what a lucky speck to be...

Don't worry, I can hander it!

It’s important to look at the big picture of life, as long as it’s not through a small screen

Living well is the best revenge.

You shouldn't call then anything. They're poor unfortunate people who cannot help the way they look.

Care for the living. I'll weep for the dead later. - Perrin Aybara

We'd been trying to touch the sky from the bottom of the ocean. I realized that if we boosted one another, maybe we'd get a little closer.

If you would test the character of anything, you only need to enquire whether that thing leads you to God or away from God.