"The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Thi…"

"For what is life but organized energy?"

"This sounded promising, and my coefficient of cupidity jumped several points."

"I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are…"

"If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run — and often in …"

"It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its …"

"Others, one suspects, are afraid that the crossing of space, and above all contact with intelligent but nonhuman race…"

"We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return ... The coming o…"

"Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as …"

"Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out."