"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?"
"You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility."
"There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths."
"It's a lazy Saturday afternoon, there's a couple lying naked in bed reading Encyclopediea Brittannica to each other, and arguing about whether the Andromeda Galaxy is more 'numinous' than the Ressurection. Do they know how to have a good time, or don't they?"
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
"We are all star stuff."