The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes.

Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?

We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos.

Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him.

I have to admit that he was not bad at combinatorial analysis - a branch, however, that even then I considered to be dried up.

Our ability to adapt and therefore to accept everything is one of our greatest dangers. Creatures that are completely flexible, changeable, can have no fixed morality.

If a man who can’t count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?