It is hardly necessary for me to say that I do not believe in the supernatural; everything that happened has a perfectly rational explanation, obviou… - Arthur C. Clarke

Democracy is our most important possession. If we throw it away when the going gets tough, we might never get it back.

Though I've often made fun of the scientists, they've freed us forever from the stagnation that was overtaking your race.

The rise of science, which with monotonous regularity refuted the cosmologies of the prophets and produced miracles which they could never match, eventually destroyed all these faiths. It did not destroy the awe, nor the reverence and humility, which all intelligent beings felt as they contemplated the stupendous universe in which they found themselves. What it did weaken, and finally obliterate, were the countless religions each of which claimed with unbelievable arrogance, that it was the sole repository of the truth and that its millions of rivals and predecessors were all mistaken.