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

It's the writing that teaches you.

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

The world is being Americanized and technologized to its limits, and that makes it dull for some people. Reaching the Moon restores the frontier and gives us the lands beyond.

Never judge your own writing. You're not fit to do so.

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.

The world of A.D. 2014 will have few routine jobs that cannot be done better by some machine than by any human being. Mankind will therefore have become largely a race of machine tenders.