I also believe - and hope - that politics and economics will cease to be as important in the future as they have been in the past; the time will come when most of our present controversies on these matters will seem as trivial, or as meaningless, as the theological debates in which the keenest minds of the Middle Ages dissipated their energies. Politics and economics are concerned with power and wealth, neither of which should be the primary, still less the exclusive, concern of full-grown men.

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

There is the possibility that humankind can outgrow its infantile tendencies, as I suggested in 'Childhood's End.' But it is amazing how childishly gullible humans are.

Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence

No communication technology has ever disappeared, but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens.

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