Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor.

It is easy to make a simple machine which will run toward the light or run away from it, and if such machines also contain lights of their own, a number of them together will show complicated forms of social behavior.

Any use of a human being in which less is demanded of him and less is attributed to him than his full status is a degradation and a waste.

What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.

Any useful logic must concern itself with Ideas with a fringe of vagueness and a Truth that is a matter of degree.

In a very real sense, we are shipwrecked passengers on a doomed planet. Yet, even in a shipwreck, human decencies and human values do not necessarily vanish, and we must make the most of them. We shall go down, but let it be in a manner to which we may look forward as worthy of our dignity.

A professor is one who can speak on any subject - for precisely fifty minutes.