Even if we never reach the stars by our own efforts, in the millions of years that lie ahead it is almost certain that the stars will come to us. Isolationism is neither a practical policy on the national or cosmic scale. And when the first contact with the outer universe is made, one would like to think that Mankind played an active and not merely a passive role-that we were the discoverers, not the discovered.

It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.

As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful.

Good morning, doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95 from my hard drive.

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

My objection to organized religion is the premature conclusion to ultimate truth that it represents.

The one fact about the future of which we can be certain is that it will be utterly fantastic.