Rees, the secret of a Scientist is not what he knows. It’s what he asks.

They actually have working gasoline cars, and motels and roadside diners. They even have halls where they pump in toxic fumes so you can smell how it was when we were kids.

Is it really conceivable, given all of that immensity, all that structure, that we are truly alone? That life emerged here, and nowhere else?

Let me face bare-handed a dozen highly trained and fully armed gladiators, each with a personal grudge against me, than a lawyer with a single pointed question.

The Earth gave you life, gave you food and language and intelligence, and will take you back when you die.

An ability to believe in things that weren’t true was a powerful tool.

Thinking about paradoxes is the way human understanding advances. I think the Fermi paradox is telling us something very profound about the universe, and our place in it.

Authority. The antithesis of science.

And if some self-proclaimed expert tells you that Martians are disembodied creatures of brain without emotion, let him listen to the recordings that were made of those cries, of victory, of vengeance, of exultation. ‘Ulla! Ulla!’ We.

Testing was never going to be fashionable, but you could hardly run a respectable software development shop with no testing effort at all.