Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation for telling the truth.

I can't bear to hear a human being spoken of with contempt just because of his group identification...It's these respectable people here who create those hooligans out there.

That's the harm of Close Encounters: that it convinces tens of millions that that's what just science fiction is.

John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

It is remarkable, Hardin, how the religion of science has grabbed hold.

The final end of Eternity, and the beginning of Infinity