The rash assertion that "God made man in His own image" is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths.

Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological

The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

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

The piece of equipment I'm most found off is my telescope. The other night I had a superb view of the moon.

It is vital to remember that information - in the sense of raw data - is not knowledge, that knowledge is not wisdom, and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these.

Even if we never reach the stars by our own efforts, in the millions of years that lie ahead it is almost certain that the stars will come to us. Isolationism is neither a practical policy on the national or cosmic scale. And when the first contact with the outer universe is made, one would like to think that Mankind played an active and not merely a passive role-that we were the discoverers, not the discovered.