The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who have seen furthest into it.

The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who have seen furthest into it.

The imagined community of millions seems more real as a team of eleven named people.

All professionals, whether physicists, economists or musicians, live by and for peer judgment, even when they are being paid by people who cannot tell the difference.

The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be justified as regrettable operational necessity.

There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.

Telephone and telegraph were better means of communication than the holy man's telepathy