[O]ur statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

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.

There shall be no need to pretend. You shall be replaced. Indeed, I will erase you. Quite easily, I assure you. --Ivy Kinley

To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony.

My lands are where my dead lie buried.

We're going to let foreign corporations and their CEO's decide the outcomes of the [presidential elections] you just can't do this.

Mystery is not always about travelling to new places, it is about looking with new eyes.

I must have assistants who will solve their own problems and tell me later what they've done.

When "everyone knows" that something is so, it is always more interesting and often illuminating to assumeexactly the opposite, and to see where that leads.

When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing.

The beauty of science and the nature of scientific revelations constitute part of the modern theologian's perspective and toolbox.

I understood now. This voice, the one that had been trying to get my attention all this time, calling out to me, begging me to hear it - it wasn't Will's. It was mine.