Id visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon. – Larry Niven
Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen. – Larry Niven
In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists. – Larry Niven
Id repair our education system or replace it with something that works. – Larry Niven
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. – Isaac Newton (1642–1727), spoken the evening before his death