It is vital to remember that information - in the sense of raw data - is not knowledge, that knowledge is not wisdom, and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these.

We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return... The coming of the rocket brought to an end a million years of isolation... the childhood of our race was over and history as we know it began.

A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.

The choice, as Wells once said, is the Universe-or nothing. . . . The challenge of the great spaces between the worlds is a stupendous one; but if we fail to meet it, the story of our race will be drawing to its close. Humanity will have turned its back upon the still untrodden heights and will be descending again the long slope that stretches, across a thousand million years of time, down to the shores of the primeval sea.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

Our own grandchildren may demonstrate that-sometimes- Gigantic is Beautiful.

As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.