There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.

[O]ur statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature.

There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save.

Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy.

If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.

Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance. To me, it always seemed that the solution had to be wisdom. You did not refuse to look at danger, rather you learned how to handle it safely.