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| Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. | | Uncategorized | |
| Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. | | Life | |
| Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all-time low over the world | | Fear | |
| Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. | | Ethics | |
| Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right. | | Uncategorized | |
| Night was a wonderful time in Brooklyn in the 1930s. Air conditioning was unknown except in movie houses, and so was television. There was nothing to keep one in the house. Furthermore, few people owned automobiles, so there was nothing to carry one away. That left the streets and the stoops. The very fullness served as an inhibition to crime. | | Uncategorized | |
| No one can possibly have lived through the Great Depression without being scarred by it. No amount of experience since the depression can convince someone who has lived through it that the world is safe economically. | | Uncategorized | |
| No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. . .. | | Decision; World | |
| Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once. | | Uncategorized | |
| Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. | | Computers | |
| People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. | | Uncategorized | |
| Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. | | Uncategorized | |
| Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows. | | Uncategorized | |
| Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is | | Education | |
| Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. | | Ignorance; Knowledge; Learning; Wisdom | |
| That we have come as far as we have in forty years [the 1930s to the 1970s] is hopeful, though I believe it is more through the fact that Hitler's excesses made racism poisonous to any humane individual than through our own virtue. That we have much farther to go is incontestable. | | Racism | |
| The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny' | | Discovery | |
| The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. | | Uncategorized | |
| The trouble is that racial stereotypes, unfavourable to everyone but white men of northwest European extraction, were completely accepted, and indeed, scarcely noted in those days of only forty years ago [the 1930s] (except perhaps by the members of the groups victimized thereby). | | Racism | |
| The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. | | Uncategorized | |
