Why is it, I wonder, that anyone who displays superior athletic ability is an object of admiration to his classmates, while one who displays superior mental ability is an object of hatred?

It has always been my ambition to die in harness with my head face down on a keyboard and my nose caught between two of the keys.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

All roads lead to Trantor, says the old proverb, and that is where all stars end.

A neat and orderly laboratory is unlikely. It is, after all, so much a place of false starts and multiple attempts.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

They don't want equal time - they want all the time there is.