“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence.
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him.
We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
Ιnformation is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.