Isaac Asimov Peculiar Quotations

Science is complex and chilling. The mathematical language of science is understood by very few. The vistas it presents are scary-an enormous universe ruled by chance and impersonal rules, empty and uncaring, ungraspable and vertiginous. How comfortable to turn instead to a small world, only a few thousand years old, and under God's personal; and immediate care; a world in which you are His peculiar concern.

There is no one so insufferable as a person who gives no other excuse for a peculiar action than saying he had been directed to it in a dream.