Some super-calculating intellect must have designed the properties of the carbon atom, otherwise the chance of my finding such an atom through the blind forces of nature would be utterly minuscule.

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.

people do not emphasize with victims and give them limitless sympathy, but can very quickly switch to aggression and rejection

The EPA is now the Employment Prevention Agency.

I literally don't know what I'm going to do next. That's successful.

The fact that some religious fanatics might support a theory doesn't invalidate it, anymore than the concurrence of UFO abduction cults invalidates the notion of extra-terrestrial life.

Donald Trump is man of action.

My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.

TV is gratifying in the long-term. We [writers] find ourselves knowing who we can go to for a laugh, or who we can go to for a good emotional moment, and then milking those things.

It's only the losers named Dave that think having an unusual name is bad, and who cares what they think. They're named Dave.

In human beings pure masculinity or femininity is not to be found either in a psychological or biological sense.

So, the world happens twice-- once what we see it as; second it legends itself deep, the way it is.