The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.

I’m sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It’s just been too intelligent to come here.

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.