Pierre Curie, a brilliant scientist, happened to marry a still more brilliant one-Marie, the famous Madame Curie-and is the only great scientist in history who is consistently identified as the husband of someone else.

Night will always be a time of fear and insecurity, and the heart will sink with the sun.

One thought that occurs to me is that men will continue to withdraw from nature in order to create an environment that will suit them better.

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

In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the work that makes life possible and that human beings will do all the other things that make life pleasant and worthwhile

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state. -(from "The Bicentennial Man) story)