A Commonsense Interpretation Of The Facts Suggests

The Seemingly Insuperable Difficulties Of Deep-space Travel Suggest An Intention To Keep Us Fixed At Home In Our Own Solar System, And The Physical Nature Of Our Part Of The Universe, As Well As The Basic Rules Of Physics And Chemistry, Have A Warning Look About Them, Like Barriers Designed To Isolate Intelligent Life. This Means That For Us, Unlike The Situation For Humble Microorganisms, Deep-space Travel Is Probably A Stark Impossibility.

Science Today Is Locked Into Paradigms. Every Avenue Is Blocked By Beliefs That Are Wrong, And If You Try To Get Anything Published By A Journal Today, You Will Run Against A Paradigm And The Editors Will Turn It Down

It Is In The World Of Ideas And In The Relation Of His Brain To The Universe Itself That The Superiority Of Man Lies. The Rise Of Man May Justly Be Described As An Adventure In Ideas.

Religion Is But A Desperate Attempt To Find An Escape From The Truly Dreadful Situation In Which We Find Ourselves. Here We Are In This Wholly Fantastic Universe With Scarcely A Clue As To Whether Our Existence Has Any Real Significance. No Wonder Then That Many People Feel The Need For Some Belief That Gives Them A Sense Of Security, And No Wonder That They Become Very Angry With People Like Me Who Say That This Is Illusory.

The Chance That Higher Life Forms Might Have Emerged Through Evolutionary Processes Is Comparable With The Chance That A Tornado Sweeping Through A Junk Yard Might Assemble A Boeing 747 From The Material Therein.