If there is a small rocket on top of a big one, and if the big one is jettisoned and the small one is ignited, then their speeds are added.

This is the goal: To make available for life every place where life is possible. To make inhabitable all worlds as yet uninhabitable, and all life purposeful.

We cannot take credit for our record avancement in certain scientific fields alone. We have been helped, and we have been helped by the people of other worlds.

The rockets... can be built so powerfully that they could be capable of carrying a man aloft.

Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the past. But looking forward things are barely discernible.

In the United States, I am often addressed as a doctor. I should like to point out, however, that I am not such and shall never think of becoming one.

When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol.

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

Color is like cooking. The cook puts in more or less salt, that's the difference!

Books are more real when you read them outside.

Theater is the best. That's where you get the work done. You just really get in there and figure something out about a story or a character or life or the world. That's where magic stuff happens.

There is a great deal of trouble in this world which is not caused by people keeping their mouths shut.

I want you. I want only you. I want all of you. But I'll take whatever you're ready to give.

Fine, I guess it's ok then. Go ahead." "Huh? What's ok?" "It's okay if you marry my brother.

Richard Meier told me, 'Young man, solar energy has nothing to do with architecture.'