I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.
Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference; we should each be treated with appropriate respect.
That first Prime Monitor, he said, was sent by the Creator, from another dimension of the early universe, into our evolving space-time system.
In this universe the night was falling; the shadows were lengthening towards an east that would not know another dawn. But elsewhere the stars were still young and the light of morning lingered; and a...
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
This had not endeared him to exobiologists such as Dr Perera, who took exactly the opposite view. To them, the only purpose of the Universe was the production of intelligence, and they were apt to tal...
Feeling extremely foolish, the acting representative of Homo sapiens watched his First Contact stride away across the Raman plain, totally indifferent to his presence.
For well-bred people do not, after all, care to read about the social gaffes of others.
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.
There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be shaped towards new ends.
For there was no vessel—at least of Man’s making—anywhere between her and the infinitely distant stars.
The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
And so Discovery drove on toward Saturn, as often as not pulsating with the cool music of the harpsichord, the frozen thoughts of a brain that had been dust for twice a hundred years.
Once, I believed that space couldhave no power over faith, just as I believed the heavens declared the glory of God’shandwork. Now I have seen that handwork, and my faith is sorely troubled.
And even if it never makes it to the big screen, millions of people have watched a very impressive version of the opening in the box office hit Independence Day. So when/if Childhood’s End is finally...
The image of Jupiter, with its ribbons of white cloud, its mottled bands of salmon pink, and the Great Red Spot staring out like a baleful eye, hung steady on the flight-deck projection screen.
I will not be afraid because I understand ... And understanding is happiness.