But no one, no matter how intelligent, could make good inferences from bad data. - Charles Sheffield

I find that prayers don’t work when you need them most. Unless you answer them for yourself.

Don’t confuse caution with cowardice.

It is remarkable that observation of the faint agglomerations of stars known as galaxies leads us, very directly and cleanly, to the conclusion that we live in a Universe of finite and determinable age. A century ago, no one could have offered even an approximate age for the Universe. For an upper bound, most nonreligious scientists would probably have said “forever.” For a lower bound, all they had was the age of the Earth.