How obvious, now, was that mathematical ratio of its sides, the quadratic sequence 1:4:9! And how naive to have imagined that the series ended there, in only three dimensions!
Here and there, set into the somber red, were rivers of bright yellow—incandescent Amazons, meandering for thousands of miles before they lost themselves in the deserts of this dying sun. Dying? No—th...
He was alone in an airless, partially disabled ship, all communication with Earth cut off. There was not another human being within half a billion miles. And yet, in one very real sense, he was not al...
Good morning, Dr. Chandra. This is Hal. I am ready for my first lesson.
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...
Even a doomed man might reasonably be expected to take some slight interest in a few thousand square meters of gems. He
During the first half of the twentieth century, a few of your scientists began to investigate these matters. They did not know it, but they were tampering with the lock of Pandora’s box. The forces th...
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...
Civilization and Religion are incompatible and Faith is believing what you know isn’t true.
But there was no substitute for reality; one should beware of imitations.
Because politics is the science of the possible, it only appeals to second-rate minds. The first raters only interested in the impossible
At this point, there flashed briefly through Stenton’s horrified mind the memory of that timeless classic, H. G. Wells’s The Star. He had first read it as a small boy, and it had helped to spark his i...
Astronomy was full of such intriguing but meaningless coincidences. The most famous was the fact that, from the Earth, both Sun and Moon have the same apparent diameter.
And because, in all the Galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than Mind, they encouraged its dawning everywhere. They became farmers in the fields of stars; they sowed, and sometimes they reape...
An author should never turn down the opportunity for a new experience
All bureaucracies are the same. They drain the life out of the truly creative people and develop mindless paper-pushers as their critical mass.
You will find men like him in all the world’s religions. They know that we represent reason and science, and, however confident they may be in their beliefs, they fear that we will overthrow their god...
We wanted you to have a feel for the size of your habitat, in case you needed that to be more comfortable with the design process.
Tranquillity was not a state of mind that could be sustained for long.
Tom hated to admit defeat, even in matters far less important than this. He believed that all problems could be solved if they were tackled in the right way, with the right equipment. This was a chall...