In a sense, artificial intelligence will be the ultimate tool because it will help us build all possible tools.

In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough.

Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.

My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportation and industrial facilities in orbit. And this led to various sorts of work in space development.

The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That immediately makes things simpler.

I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.

On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds.

Scientists study physical things, then describe them; engineers describe physical things, then build them.

...Local prohibitions cannot block advances in military and commercial technology... Democratic movements for local restraint can only restrain the world's democracies, not the world as a whole.

Nature draws no line between living and nonliving.

Any powerful technology can be abused.

Never try to prove that you are right or superior. Let the Lord Himself fight for you

I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself because it always changes me.

The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.

Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns

People see only my actions. Instead, if I focus on Christ with thanksgiving, people see Him.

Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.

If we do the ordinary, God will add an extra to it.

How one encounters reality is a choice.

If you are not learning while you’re earning, you are cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

Everything you do, every experience that you have, enlightens you a little bit or worsens you.