It was a pity that there was no radar to guide one across the trackless seas of life. Every man had to find his own way, steered by some secret compass of the soul. And sometimes, late or early, the compass lost its power and spun aimlessly on its bearings. Alan Bishop

In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - can possible have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say 'I have learned' and 'I have loved,' you will also be able to say 'I have been happy.

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

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

In all the universe there is nothing more precious than mind.

The exploration of the planets is now closer to us in time than the exploration of Africa by Stanley and Livingstone.

In this universe the night was falling; the shadows were lengthening towards an east that would not know another dawn. But elsewhere the stars were still young and the light of morning lingered; and along the path he once had followed, Man would one day go again.