Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.

Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility... It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.

Science can give mankind a better standard of living, better health and a better mental life, if mankind in turn gives science the sympathy and support so essential to its progress.

To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly is to furnish the framework on which the spirit may rise.

As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, there will be a flow of new scientific knowledge to those who can apply it to practical problems.

Give these people money, let them play, and they'll come up with something.

Basic scientific research is scientific capital.

Publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record.

Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and there amplified.

The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability, and something is bound to come of it.

The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.

You must want a thing enough to chase for it.

If Heaven made him earth can find some use for him.

You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.

It is men who face the biggest problems in the future, adjusting to their new and complicated role.

We may employ artifice to deceive a rival, anything against our enemies.

Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.

Well, [bad] times like that bring out the best in some people and the worst in others.

Too many ads that try not to go over the reader's head end up beneath his notice.

And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it.

I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography.