“Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.”

It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.

In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.

Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.

Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.

No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world.

The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.

Take any important issue of our time – Northern Ireland, Nuclear Disarmament, Race,

So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport is the long term. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.

Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.

I love all people, whatever race they are.

When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.

Without going to what I think is my limit. I always say that my ideal is to get pole with the minimum effort, and to win the race at the slowest speed possible.