Scientist

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

Hidup itu menyenangkan. Kematian adalah damai. Ini adalah transisi yang merepotkan.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.