"In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the 3.6 million year old fossil footprints were eventually noticed one evening in September 1976 by the paleontologist Andrew Hill, who fell while avoiding a ball of elepha

"Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena."

"Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men."

"The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage."

"The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine?"

"One man's theology is another man's belly laugh."

"We are punished by our sins, not for them."

"A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."

"For NASA, space is still a high priority."

"If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos."