Now, before you make a movie, you have to have a script, and before you have a script, you have to have a story; though some avant-garde directors have tried to dispense with the latter item, you'll f...
Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly.
Now that they were no longer half-numbed with starvation, they had time both for leisure and for the first rudiments of thought.
No electronic computer can match the human brain at associating apparently irrelevant facts.
In accordance with the terms of the Clarke-Asimov treaty, the second-bestscience writer dedicates this book to the second-best science-fiction
Historically, both fear and public opinion were notoriously unconcerned about morality.
Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.
Don’t believe anything I’ve told you—merely because I said it.
Children grow fast in this low gravity. But they don’t age so quickly—they’ll live longer than we do. Floyd stared in fascination at the self-assured little lady, noting the graceful carriage and the...
In accordance with the terms of the Clarke-Asimov treaty, the second-bestscience writer dedicates this book to the second-best science-fictionwriter.[dedication to Isaac Asimov from Arthur C. Clarke i...
I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.
Forty-one was a very special number, the initial integer in the longest continuous string of quadratic primes.
What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.
This touch of luxury was typical of the Base, though it was sometimes hard to explain its necessity to the folk back on Earth. Every man and woman in Clavius had cost a hundred thousand dollars in tra...
The fax machine now allows us to exchange ideas almost in real time; it’s far more convenient than the Electronic Mail
Ten kilometers away, the lights of New York glowed on the skyline like a dawn frozen in the act of breaking.
Some women, Commander Norton had decided long ago, should not be allowed aboard ship; weightlessness did things to their breasts that were too damn distracting.
Some dangers are so spectacular and so much beyond normal experience that the mind refuses to accept them as real, and watches the approach of doom without any sense of apprehension. The man who looks...
Science fiction could now be made far more convincing by science fact.
Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.