It is precisely because it is fashionable for Americans to know no science, even though they may be well educated otherwise, that they so easily fall prey to nonsense.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.

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.

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

People think of education as something that they can finish.

There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.

A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

I want to be the reason you look at your phone when you wake up in the morning and smile

High heels? Painful pleasure.

The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts.

Only when one is connected to one's inner core is one connected to others. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through solitude.

I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can.

While three men hold together, the kingdoms are less by three.

Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment.

We're the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody's afraid to be thought in any way different from everyone else.

A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.

I dream of men who take the next step instead of worrying about the next thousand steps.