Any smoothly functioning technology will have the appearance of magic.
It is really quite amazing by what margins competent but conservative scientists and engineers can miss the mark, when they start with the preconceived idea that what they are investigating is impossible.
Somewhere in me is a curiosity sensor. I want to know what’s over the next hill. You know, people can live longer without food than without information. Without information, you’d go crazy.
Only small minds are impressed by large numbers.
No one of intelligence resents the inevitable.
Space can be mapped and crossed and occupied without definable limit; but it can never be conquered.
Perhaps no other year before or since 1984 has been awaited with such eager anticipation.
If children have interests then education happens.
We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return The coming of the rocket brought to an end a million years of isolation the childhood of our race was over and history as we know it began.
The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers – and thermonuclear weapons.
I have never grown up, but I will never stop growing.
In the long run, there are no secrets. in science. The universe will not cooperate in a cover-up.
The piece of equipment I’m most found off is my telescope. The other night I had a superb view of the moon.
The Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation.
We always thought the living Earth was a thing of beauty. It isn’t. Life has had to learn to defend itself against the planet’s random geological savagery.
The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labour.
We overestimate technology in the short term and underestimate technology in the long term.
When beauty is universal, it loses its power to move the heart, and only its absence can produce any emotional effect.
The moment when one first meets a great work of art has an impact that can never again be recaptured.
Can the synthesis of man and machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded?