"Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology"

"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage"

"Science never solves a problem without creating ten more"

"All science is either physics or stamp collecting"

"The science of today is the technology of tomorrow"

"Science does not know its debt to imagination"

"If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic"

"Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value"

"Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science"

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom"

"Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion"