Some things have eternal value, and compassion is one of them. I hope we never lose that. Compassion for humans as well as animals.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

. . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.

Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of a ll Utopias - boredom.

But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.

The piece of equipment I'm most found off is my telescope. The other night I had a superb view of the moon.

We over estimate technology in the short term and under estimate technology in the long term.