I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent.

As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful.

The entire sweep of human history from the dark ages into the unknown future was considerably less important at the moment than the question of a certain girl and her feelings toward him.

Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.

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

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

It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.