 Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along. |
| New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along! |
| It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. |
| It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him. |
| Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. |
| Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. |
| We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20? |
| The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. |
| Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering. |
| When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. |
| I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her. |
| The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible. |
| Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it. |
| How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean. |
| The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. |
| I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. |
| CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. |
| The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. |
| This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one. |
| I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical. |
