We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who
creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.
If you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear
A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away
It is the struggle itself that is most important. We must strive to be more than we are. It does not matter that we will not reach our ultimate goal. The effort itself yields its own reward.
It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning.
Ancient astronauts didn't build the pyramids. Human beings built the pyramids, because they're clever and they work hard.
The Strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.
Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. […] If we cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences, to take a positive delight in those small differences between our own kind, here on this planet, then we do not deserve to go out into space and meet the diversity that is almost certainly out there.