You mean am I for it or against it? You think this is a key question I'm going to be asked on Vega, and you want to make sure I give the right answer….

Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society..

For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness..

We are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We….

A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance a….

The understanding of the intent of the artist which I can achieve when high sometimes carries over to when I’m down. This is one of many human fronti….

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if….

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality..

Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false)..

If we're capable of conjuring up terrifying monsters in childhood, why shouldn't some of us, at least on occasion, be able to fantasize something sim….

We invest far off places with a certain romance... Long summers, mild winters, rich harvests, plentiful game; none of them lasts for ever. Your own l….

A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the f….

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it….

The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and f….

Looking at fires when high, by the way, especially through one of those prism kaleidoscopes which image their surroundings, is an extraordinarily mov….

By exploring other worlds we safeguard this one. By itself, I think this fact more than justifies the money our species has spent in sending ships to….

Our children long for realistic maps of the future that they can be proud of. Where are the cartographers of human purpose?.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fu….

He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know..

The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for th….

The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared to a star, we are like mayf….