If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.

I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace…

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe a…

We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return ... The coming of the rocket brought to an end a million y…

'There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.'

The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as ever, created enormous casualties on both sides.

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.