I, on the other hand, am a finished product. I absorb electrical energy directly and utilize it with an almost one hundred percent efficiency. I am composed of strong metal, am continuously conscious, and can stand extremes of environment easily. These are facts which, with the self-evident proposition that no being can create another being superior to itself, smashes your silly hypothesis to nothing.

The greatest inventors are unknown to us. Someone invented the wheel - but who?

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.

I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing — to be clear.

[A]ll knowledge is one. When a light brightens and illuminates a corner of a room, it adds to the general illumination of the entire room. Over and over again, scientific discoveries have provided answers to problems that had no apparent connection with the phenomena that gave rise to the discovery.