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.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

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.