History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the universe.

Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the universe.

Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people.

We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't figured that out by the time they're ten.... Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard and be misinformed.

As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs.