The best way of handling pain was to study it objectively.

We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return.

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.

The phenomenon of UFO doesn't say anything about the presence of intelligence in space. It just shows how rare it is here on the earth.

Chemistry is a trade for people without enough imagination to be physicists.

The human race had long ago overcome its childhood terror of the merely alien in appearance. That was a fear which could no longer survive after the first contact with friendly extraterrestrial races.

In the struggle for freedom of information, technology not politics will be the ultimate decider.

There was no substitute for reality; one should beware of imitations.

Human judges can show mercy, But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

Much had been lost during the centuries, for men seldom bother to preserve the commonplace articles of everyday life.