Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.

Scientists derive satisfaction from figuring out the puzzle. It's about the quest, not the grail.

The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

Old people think young people haven't learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.

There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.

We are reaching the stage where the problems we must solve are going to become insoluble without computers. I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them.