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

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

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

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.

When in doubt, don't.