I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism..

There is no Master but the Master,” he said, “and QT-1 is his prophet..

A neat and orderly laboratory is unlikely. It is, after all, so much a place of false starts and multiple attempts..

Night will always be a time of fear and insecurity, and the heart will sink with the sun..

It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the force that….

At two-tenths the speed of light, dust and atoms might not do significant damage even in a voyage of 40 years, but the faster you go, the worse it is….

This idea [standardized time zones] was first advanced and fought for by Sandford Fleming of Canada and Charles F. Dowd of the United States. I menti….

I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architec….

The important prediction is not the automobile, but the parking problem; not radio, but the soap opera; not the income tax, but the expense account; ….

There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may sav….

Although we will hate and fight the machines, we will be supplanted anyway, and rightly so, for the intelligent machines to which we will give birth ….

If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no rule that some will not think is unjust a….

There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural..

Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; the….

[O]ur statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking..

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..

There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power..

The appearance of strength is all about you. It would seem to last forever. However... the rotten tree-trunk, until the very moment when the storm-bl….

I discovered, to my amazement, that all through history there had been resistance ... and bitter, exaggerated, last-stitch resistance ... to every si….

Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience..

Robots will neither be common nor very good in 2014, but they will be in existence..