Considering what human beings do and have done to human beings (and to other living things as well) ... I can never imagine what the devil people think computers can add to the horrors.

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.

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.

Science doesn't purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism... for testing your thoughts against the universe.

The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.

The peace and joy of the Christmas season was marred by a proclamation of a general strike of all the military forces of the world. Panic reigns in the hearts of all the patriots of every persuasion. Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all-time low over the world.

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.