Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

Man's greatest asset is the unsettled mind.

I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.

A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

I type 90 words per minute on the typewriter; I type 100 words per minute on the word processor. But, of course, I don't keep that up indefinitely - every once in a while I do have to think a few seconds.

To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn.

We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and we labor to cut them away and get to what might be a kernel of truth. In fact, these same techniques must be applied to the most sober histories, for no one writes the clear and apparent truth-if such a thing can even be said to exist.