Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.

Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.

The future is better than the past. Despite the crepe hangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better. With hands ... with tools ... with horse sense and science and engineering.

Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.

No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.

The bugs are not like us. The Pseudo-Arachnids aren’t even like spiders. They are arthropods who happen to look like a madman’s conception of a giant intelligent spider, but their organization, psychological and economic, is more like that of ants or termites; they are communal entities, the ultimate dictatorship of the hive.

Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit