Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. - Carl Sagan

"Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?"

"If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth."

"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."

"I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves."

"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."