Perhaps it is better to be un-sane and happy, than sane and un-happy. But it is the best of all to be sane and happy. Whether our descendants can achieve that goal will be the greatest challenge of th...
On the placidly flowing river of time, he wished only to make a few ripples: he shrank from diverting its course.
Nothing in this scene will be changed by my death, Nicole thought. There will just be one less pair of eyes to observe its splendor. And one less collection of chemicals risen to consciousness to wond...
No wonder that people are becoming passive sponges—absorbing but never creating. Did you know that the average viewing time per person is now three hours a day? Soon people won’t be living their own l...
No single individual, however eccentric or brilliant, could affect the enormous inertia of a society that had remained virtually unchanged for over a billion years.
Much had been lost during the centuries, for men seldom bother to preserve the commonplace articles of everyday life.
Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains; they made him feel nearer to the God whose nonexistence he still sometimes resented.
Jealousy is a terrible thing. It doth mock the meat it feeds upon is an understatement. Jealousy is completely consuming, totally irrational, and absolutely debilitating. The most wonderful people in...
It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand; but
It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand.
It is a bitter thought, but you must face it. The planets you may one day possess. But the stars are not for man.
If he was indeed mad, his delusions were beautifully organized.
Hello, Dave, said Hal presently. Have you found the trouble? This
Floyd sometimes wondered if the Newspad, and the fantastic technology behind it, was the last word in man’s quest for perfect communications. Here he was, far out in space, speeding away from Earth at...
Do you realize that every day something like five hundred hours of radio and TV pour out over the various channels? If you went without sleep and did nothing else, you could follow less than a twentie...
Do we use models to help us find the truth? Or do we know the truth first, and then develop the mathematics to explain it?
Can you sum up your ideas in less than—oh, a thousand bits?
But there was no substitute for reality; one should beware of imitations.
Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.
After the struggle for sheer existence, they had no energy left for a civilization.