You don't need to predict the future. Just choose a future -- a good future, a useful future -- and make the kind of prediction that will alter human….

Speech, originally, was the device whereby Man learned, imperfectly, to transmit the thoughts and emotions of his mind. By setting up arbitrary sound….

The vast majority, who believe in astrology and think that the planets have nothing better to do than form a code that will tell them whether tomorro….

My feeling is that as far as creativity is concerned, isolation is required. Creation is embarrassing. For every new good idea you have, there are a ….

Korell is that frequent phenomenon in history : the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name. It therefore enjoy….

So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe..

I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing-to be clear. I have given up all thought of writing poetically or symbolical….

The closer to the truth, the better the lie, and the truth itself, when it can be used, is the best lie..

All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch..

I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion..

Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy..

I have been told that a young would-be composer wrote to Mozart asking advice about how to compose a symphony. Mozart responded that a symphony was a….

We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, an….

You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, ….

There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole..

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly..

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itse….

I don't subscribe to the thesis, 'Let the buyer beware,' I prefer the disregarded one that goes, 'Let the seller be honest.'.

The bible must be seen in a cultural context. It didn't just happen. These stories are retreads. But, tell a Christian that -- No, No! What makes it….

How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. That is all wrong. The true art….

All of a sudden, space isn't friendly. All of a sudden, it's a place where people can die. . . . Many more people are going to die. But we can't expl….