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I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.


I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.


If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.


The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.


Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it.


Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.


I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.


Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.


I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.


This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.


The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.


When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.


New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!


It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.


Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.


The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.


Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.


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


Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along.


There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.