Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted to fact.

I don't think I've ever held a racket in my hand ... There's got to be somebody in the US who isn't trying to play tennis and stinking up the court.

Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.

Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.

Science does not promise absolute truth, nor does it consider that such a thing necessarily exists. Science does not even promise that everything in the Universe is amenable to the scientific process.

The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.

There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven.