I doubt if there is a single field of study so theoretical, so remote from what is laughingly called everyday life, that it may not one day produce something that will shake the world.

Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence

I sometimes wonder how we spent leisure time before satellite television and Internet came along…and then I realise that I have spent more than half of my life in the ‘dark ages’!

God said, 'Cancel Program GENESIS.' The universe ceased to exist.

No trilogy should have more than four books.

A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible-indeed, inevitable-the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody.

Creationism, perhaps the most pernicious of the intellectual perversions now afflicting the American public.