The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.

Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down.

I predict, not because I know, but because I'm asked.

Faced with having to change our views or prove that there is no need to do so, most of us immediately get busy on the proof.