It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

Humor was the enemy of desire.

Good morning, Dr. Chandra. This is Hal. I am ready for my first lesson.

A man who grows that much hair,' critics were fond of saying, 'must have a lot to hide.

Perhaps no other year before or since 1984 has been awaited with such eager anticipation.

The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labour.

One can imagine a time when men who still inhabit organic bodies are regarded with pity by those who have passed on to an infinitely richer mode of existence, capable of throwing their consciousness or sphere of attention instantaneously to any point on land, sea, or sky where there is a suitable sensing organ. In adolescence we leave childhood behind; one day there may be a second and more portentous adolescence, when we bid farewell to the flesh.