Gene Roddenberry Quotes

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• Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all.
• I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of their free will - and…
• If this is your God, he's not very impressive. He has so many psychological problems; he's so insecure. He demands worship every seven days. He…
• The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity.
• For Star Trek proves, as faulty as individual episodes could be, is that the much-maligned common man and common woman has an enormous hunger for…
• I believe in humanity. We are an incredible species. We're still just a child creature, we're still being nasty to each other. And all children…
• The Strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.
• We have within reach, now, the attainment of almost every dream of mankind.
• For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people to look directly…
• I think God is as much a basic ingredient in the universe as neutrons and positrons. This is the prime force, when we look around…
• They said God was on high and he controlled the world and therefore we must pray against Satan. Well, if God controls the world, he…
• You can't take this speck of dust in this midst of all this incredible panorama of birth and complexifying and say...this is the only place…
• I have always been reasonably leery of religion because there are so many edicts in religion, 'thou shalt not,' or 'thou shalt.' I wanted my…
• I'm in a period of growth and expansion. I'm taking long, hard looks at the world and what's happening in it, analyzing and thinking. I'm…
• Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life…
• Let me end with an explanation of why I believe the move into space to be a human imperative. It seems to me obvious in…
• Why are we now going into space? Well, why did we trouble to look past the next mountain? Our prime obligation to ourselves is to…
• In the fifth season [of Star Trek: The Next Generation] viewers will see more of shipboard life [including] gay crew members in day-to-day circumstances.
• Star Trek says that it has not all happened, it has not all been discovered, that tomorrow can be as challenging and adventurous as any…
• For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain.

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