No utopia can ever give satisfaction to everyone, all the time. As their material conditions improve, men raise their sights and become discontented with power and possessions that once would have seemed beyond their wildest dreams. And even when the external world has granted all it can, there still remain the searchings of the mind and the longings of the heart.

Absolutely no religious rites of any kind, relating to any religious faith, should be associated with my funeral.

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

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

Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.

Almost any seat was comfortable at one-sixth of a gravity.

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