There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that share our world. Whatsoever life we meet will be as strange and alien as the nightmare creatures of the ocean abyss, or of the insect empire whose horrors are normally hidden from us by their microscopic scale.

The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labour.

There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.

In the long run, there are no secrets. in science. The universe will not cooperate in a cover-up.

Trying to predict the future is a discouraging and hazardous occupation. If by some miracle a prophet could describe the future exactly as it was going to take place, his predictions would sound so absurd that people everyone would laugh him to scorn. The only thing we can be sure of about the future is that it will be absolutely fantastic. So, if what I say now seems to you to be very reasonable, then I will have failed completely. Only if what I tell you appears absolutely unbelievable have we any chance of visualizing the future as it really will happen.