I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

The math is dead simple: it seems that the frequency of planets able to support life is roughly one percent. In other words, a billion or more such worlds exist in our galaxy alone. That's a lot of acreage, and it takes industrial-strength credulity to believe it's all bleakly barren.