Motivational Status in English

Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind, I am free.

If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason—for then we would know the mind of God.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner but that they reflect a certain underlying order.

We are time's witnesses and its victims.

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans.

I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

Without imperfection, you or I would not exist.

We are all different, but we share the same human spirit. Perhaps it's human nature that we adapt and survive.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Be curious.

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.