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

The moon is the first milestone on the road to the stars.

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

Can the synthesis of man and machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded?

I doubt if there is a single field of study so theoretical, so remote from what is laughingly called everyday life, that it may not one day produce something that will shake the world.

In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - can possible have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say 'I have learned' and 'I have loved,' you will also be able to say 'I have been happy.

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.