Bowman was aware of some changes in his behavior patterns; it would have been absurd to expect anything else in the circumstances. He could no longer tolerate silence; except when he was sleeping, or...
Science fiction is something that happen - but usually you wouldn't want it to. Fantasy is something that happen - though often you only wish that it could.
1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.2. The only way of...
My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence.[: Chapter 19]
It was the end of civilization, the end of all that men had striven for since the beginning of time. In the space of a few days, humanity had lost its future, for the heart of any race is destroyed, a...
I said nothing about men adapting themselves to Mars. Have you ever considered the possibility of Mars meeting us half-way?
Finally, I would like to assure my many Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim friends that I am sincerely happy that the religion which Chance has given you has contributed to your peace of m...
Call it the Star Gate.
Yet in a few milliseconds he could see the headlines of any newspaper he pleased. (That very word newspaper, of course, was an anachronistic hangover into the age of electronics.) The text was updated...
Western man had relearned-what the rest of the world had never forgotten-that there was nothing sinful in leisure as long as it did not degenerate into mere sloth.
One thing seems certain. Our galaxy is now in the brief springtime of its life—a springtime made glorious by such brilliant blue-white stars as Vega and Sirius, and, on a more humble scale, our own Su...
In some ways, admitted the Overlord gravely. In others perhaps a better analogy can be found in the history of your colonial powers. The Roman and British Empires, for that reason, have always been of...
I agree with you, Captain, he whispered. The human race has to live with its conscience. Whatever the Hermians argue, survival is not everything.
He felt no regrets as the work of a lifetime was swept away. He had labored to take man to the stars, and, in the moment of success, the stars—the aloof, indifferent stars—had come to him. This was th...
Belief in God is apparently a psychological arti-fact of mammalian reproduction.
Because each of us is the sum of all we have ever experienced. Only the very young have a clean slate.
All that had gone before was not a thousandth of what was yet to come; the story of this star had barely begun.
Oh God, there were so many stars you could have used. What was the need to give these people to the fire, that the symbol of their passing might shine above Bethlehem?
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.