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Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.
The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them.
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
Science demands patience.
Open the pod bay doors, Hal.
Humor was the enemy of desire.
Religion is a byproduct of fear.
Now I understand,” said the last man.
Guns are the crutches of the impotent.
Science is the only religion of mankind.
Training was one thing, reality another.
A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.
Only feeble minds are paralyzed by facts.
The truth, as always, will be far stranger.
No trilogy should have more than four books.
The future is not to be forecast, but created.
No one of intelligence resents the inevitable.
Only small minds are impressed by large numbers.
If I didn't exist, I would have invented myself.
The only real problem in life is what to do next.
Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.
If children have interests, then education happens.
If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.
Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses.
I have never grown up, but I will never stop growing.
Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.
Astronomy, as nothing else can do, teaches men humility.
The moon is the first milestone on the road to the stars.
Almost any seat was comfortable at one-sixth of a gravity.
In all the universe there is nothing more precious than mind.
It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.
Space is what stops everything from happening in the same place.
When all else failed, you had to rely on eyeball intrumentation.
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence
God said, 'Cancel Program GENESIS.' The universe ceased to exist.
Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological
I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
When one has to ask, "Am I really in love?" the answer is always "No".
Any smoothly functioning technology will have the appearance of magic.
Good morning, Dr. Chandra. This is Hal. I am ready for my first lesson.
The success of a science fiction writer is if he can write a good read.
Don't mess up the environment until you're quite sure what you're doing.
The best proof of intelligent life in space is that it hasn't come here.
The Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation.
There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
