The young specialist in English Lit, having quoted me, went on to lecture me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the Universe at last, and in every century...

The church says the earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence even in a shadow than in the church.

If we presume that the boundary of the universe is a kind of surrounding wall,then we think like ancestors who thought there’s abyss at the edge of flat earth.

The media are desperately afraid of being accused of bias. And that’s partly because there’s a whole machine out there, an organized attempt to accuse them of bias whenever they say anything that the Right...

The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.

A long time ago people believed that the world is flat and the moon is made of green cheese. Some still do, to this day. The man on the moon is looking down and laughing.