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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. - [Clergy] Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. - [Evidence] If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - [Creation] Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used. - [Intelligence] Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense. - [Skepticism] Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. - [Mystery] The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit. - [Ideas] To make an apple pie from scratch, we must first invent the universe. - [Invention] We are star-stuff. - [Astronomy] When you make the finding yourself--even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light--you'll never forget it. - [Discovery] You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe. - [Belief]
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