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From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we read more
From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.
When the lay public rallies round to an idea that is denounced by distinguished by elderly scientists and supports the read more
When the lay public rallies round to an idea that is denounced by distinguished by elderly scientists and supports the idea with great fervour and emotion, the distinguished but elderly scientests are then, after all, right. -Isaac Asimov.
Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room read more
Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan. - "Time", July 2, 1956.
Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.
Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.
You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.
It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.
You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than read more
You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.
The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the read more
The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge. Provide you could pay and read, what was on the shelves in the new bookshops was yours for the taking. The speed with which printing presses and their operators fanned out across Europe is extraordinary. From the single Mainz press of 1457, it took only twenty-three years to establish presses in 110 towns: 50 in Ita!0 in Germany, 9 in France, 8 in Spain, 8 in Holland, 4 in England, and so on.
I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.
I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.
