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

Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.

The Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation.

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?

Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favourite of the Sun's children.

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.

Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened.