The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.

Once you can reproduce a phenomenon, you are well on the way to understanding it.

It is really quite amazing by what margins competent but conservative scientists and engineers can miss the mark, when they start with the preconceived idea that what they are investigating is impossible.

Humor was the enemy of desire.

Until we get rid of religion, we won't be able to conduct the search for God.

In this single galaxy of ours there are eighty-seven thousand million suns. [...] In challenging it, you would be like ants attempting to label and classify all the grains of sand in all the deserts of the world. [...] It is a bitter thought, but you must face it. The planets you may one day possess. But the stars are not for man.

Now, before you make a movie, you have to have a script, and before you have a script, you have to have a story; though some avant-garde directors have tried to dispense with the latter item, you'll find their work only at art theaters.