The truth, as always, will be far stranger.
Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many.
In all the universe there is nothing more precious than mind.
I doubt if there is a single field of study so theoretical, so remote from what is laughingly called everyday life, that it may not one day produce something that will shake the world.
When one has to ask, “Am I really in love?” the answer is always “No”.
I am unable to distinguish clearly between your religious ceremonies and apparently identical behavior at the sporting and cultural functions you have transmitted to me.
Science demands patience.
A single test which proves some piece of theory wrong is more valuable than a hundred tests showing that idea might be true.
What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy’s point of view.
Since women are better at producing babies, presumably Nature has given men some talent to compensate. But for the moment I can’t think of it.
SETI is probably the most important quest of our time, and it amazes me that governments and corporations are not supporting it sufficiently.
Guns are the crutches of the impotent.
You don’t believe in organized religion, yet a major theme in so many of your works seems to be a quest for God.
Why, Robert Singh often wondered, did we give our hearts to friends whose life spans are so much shorter than our own?
Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains; they made him feel nearer to the God whose nonexistence he still sometimes resented.
Even by the twenty-second century, no way had yet been discovered of keeping elderly and conservative scientists from occupying crucial administrative positions. Indeed, it was doubted if the problem ever would be solved.
Sometimes a decision has to be made by a single individual, who has the authority to enforce it. That’s why you need a captain. You can’t run a ship by a committee-at least not all the time.
The space elevator will be built about 50 years after everyone stops laughing.
Any path to knowledge is a path to God-or Reality, whichever word one prefers to use.
Good morning, Dr. Chandra. This is Hal. I am ready for my first lesson.