“I agree that faith is essential to success in life, but I do not accept your definition of faith, i.e. belief in life after death.”

My method of thought and reasoning is influenced by a scientific training—if that were not so my scientific training will have been a waste and a failure.

In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our aims: the improvement of mankind.

Again, I see no reason why the belief that we are insignificant or fortuitous should lessen our faith.

I maintain that faith in this world is perfectly possible without faith in another world.

Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.

My method of thought and reasoning is influenced by a scientific training—if that were not so my scientific training will have been a waste and a failure.

I maintain that faith in this world is perfectly possible without faith in another world.

In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our aims: the improvement of mankind.

In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our aims: the improvement of mankind.

I see no reason to believe that a creator of protoplasm or primeval matter, if such there be, has any reason to be interested in our insignificant race in a tiny corner of the universe, and still less in us, as still more insignificant individuals.

I would willingly go more primitive if it were necessary to preserve my freedom.

Your faith rests on the future of yourself and others as individuals, mine in the future and fate of our successors.

I see no reason to believe that a creator of protoplasm or primeval matter, if such there be, has any reason to be interested in our insignificant race in a tiny corner of the universe, and still less in us, as still more insignificant individuals.

What’s the use of doing all this work if we don’t get some fun out of this?

Science, for me, gives a partial explanation for life. In so far as it goes, it is based on fact, experience and experiment.

Traveling around in a little tin box isolates one from the people and the atmosphere of the place in a way that I have never experienced before.

Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

Be in love with your life, every detail of it.

What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that’s been given to them, and find some dignity.

When people told the audience that [Sam Kinison] was good, he was accepted after that.

Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.

One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave – our own self. Get on good terms with that companion – learn to live with yourself.

He who accepts his poverty unhurt I’d say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.

Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable to accept the fact that she is your equal or superior in intelligence, you invent something called feminine intuition.