This is the result of six billion years of evolution. Tonight, we have given the lie to gravity.We have reached for the stars.

So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.

All education is self-discovery.

I don't like the kind of writer who's out to change the world and beat up on people for their own good. Stalin did that and Hitler did that, and to hell with them.

Garrett," said Stendahl, "do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them. You took other people's advice that they needed burning. Otherwise you'd have realized what I was going to do to you when we came down here a moment ago. Ignorance is fatal, Mr. Garrett.

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.