Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.
I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.
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!
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?
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
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.
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.
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.
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.
