Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along.

The second best thing about space travel is that the distances involved make war very difficult, usually impractical, and almost always unnecessary. This is probably a loss for most people, since war is our race's most popular diversion, one which gives purpose and color to dull and stupid lives. But it is a great boon to the intelligent man who fights only when he must-never for sport.

It was equally imperative that this chain of reactions should always tend to dampen, to die out. It must not build up, or the uranium mass would explode within a time interval too short to be measured by any means whatsoever. Nor would there be anyone left to measure it.

In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find out.

All my enemies are self-appointed.

Logic is a feeble reed, friend.

There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.