We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.
Thought, Creativity, Education
Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams.
Dreams, Science Fiction
It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible.
Inspirational
The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.
Destiny, Humanity, Space
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