There is no way to find the best design except to try out as many designs as possible and discard the failures.

I think the biggest misconception is that everybody has to learn mathematics. That seems to be a complete mistake.

There is nothing so big nor so crazy that one out of a million technological societies may not feel itself driven to do, provided it is physically possible.

That's, of course, the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we do understand.

That's what I learned from World War II. Things are always more complicated than most people believe.

In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.

Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent.