Science is the only religion of mankind.

Then he [The Star Child] waited, marshaling his thoughts and brooding over his still untested powers. For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next. But he would think of something.

'The Devil in the Dark' impressed me because it presented the idea, unusual in science fiction then and now, that something weird, and even dangerous, need not be malevolent. That is a lesson that many of today's politicians have yet to learn.

The space elevator will be built about 50 years after everyone stops laughing.

When beauty is universal, it loses its power to move the heart, and only its absence can produce any emotional effect.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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