Some Super-calculating Intellect Must Have

The Man Who Voyages Strange Seas Must Of Necessity Be A Little Unsure Of Himself. It Is The Man With The Flashy Air Of Knowing Everything, Who Is Always With It, That We Should Beware Of.

The Likelihood Of The Formation Of Life From Inanimate Matter Is 1 To A Number With 40,000 Noughts After It (1040,000).... It Is Big Enough To Bury Darwin And The Whole Theory Of Evolution. There Was No Primeval Soup, Neither On This Planet Nor Any Other, And If The Beginnings Of Life Were Not Random, They Must Therefore Have Been The Product Of Purposeful Intelligence.

There Are Many Ways Of Knocking Electrons Out Of Atoms. The Simplest Is To Rub Two Surfaces Together.

It Seems To Be A Characteristic Of All Great Work That It Creators Wear A Cloak Of Imprecision.

Perhaps The Most Majestic Feature Of Our Whole Existence Is That While Our Intelligences Are Powerful Enough To Penetrate Deeply Into The Evolution Of This Quite Incredible Universe, We Still Have Not The Smallest Clue To Our Own Fate.