Robert L. Park famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • If the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to who we were, then we couldn't do better than the Natural History Museum, although it wouldn't contain a single human. The systematic Linnean order, the vast inquisitiveness and range of collated knowledge and beauty would tell all that is the best of us.

  • I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

  • I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.

  • We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied; they are, if sound, the spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.

  • Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

  • We live alone in our cluttered psyches, possessed by our entrenched beliefs, our fatuous desires, our endless contradictions - and like it or not we have to put up with this in one another.

  • Your belief system saturates the space around you.

  • I'm a huge horror movie fan. Beyond belief.

  • All money is a matter of belief.

  • Freedom of belief and worship is the most important guarantee of social peace.