"Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all."
"I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here."
"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
"There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence—or even in life. Both may be random accidental by-products of its operations like the beautiful patterns on a butterfly's wings. The insect would fly just as well without them."
"How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth,"when it is clearly "Ocean."
"Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."