I have never written a book that didn’t teach me far more than it taught my reader.
Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable to accept the fact that she is your equal or superior in intelligence, you invent something called feminine intuition.
Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate itself in empty phrases.
You can’t assert an answer just because it’s not something else.
If you ask for too much, you lose even that which you have.
Humanity is cutting down its forests, apparently oblivious to the fact that we may not be able to live without them.
Life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far superior to that of muscle and sinew.
I am the beneficiary of a lucky break in the genetic sweepstakes.
They absorb carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide and give out oxygen. What could be more desirable? And they look good in the bargain. Stop chopping down the rain forests and plant more saplings, and we’re on our way.
The downtrodden are more religious than the satisfied.
Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.
Computerization eliminates the middleman.
No one can possibly have lived through the Great Depression without being scarred by it. No amount of experience since the depression can convince someone who has lived through it that the world is safe economically.
Scientists expect to be improved on and corrected; they hope to be.
Tens of millions of Americans who neither know or understand the actual arguments for, or even against, evolution, march in the Army of the Night with their Bibles held high.
It’s a poor atom blaster that won’t point both ways.
I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing – to be clear.
In my life there have been several individuals whose presence made it easier for me to think, pleasanter to make my responses.
A neat and orderly laboratory is unlikely. It is, after all, so much a place of false starts and multiple attempts.
In life, people will take you at your own reckoning.