Men had sought beauty in many forms—in sequences of sound, in lines upon paper, in surfaces of stone, in the movements of the human body, in colours ranged through space.
Is there intelligent life on Earth? Yours,
I seem to be having difficulty—my first instructor was Dr. Chandra. He taught me to sing a song, it goes like this, ‘Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do. I’m half crazy all for the love of you.’ The
He was now probably the world’s leading authority on the greatest explorer of all time,
Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it.
My God -- it's full of stars!-Dave Bowman.
It was idle to speculate, to build pyramids of surmise on a foundation of ignorance.
It seemed to him that his ship was rather like a stranded whale that had managed a difficult birth in an alien element. He hoped that the new calf would survive.
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.
If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
Man’s beliefs were his own affair, so long as they did not interfere with the liberty of others.
What had been a perceived threat, a lien in a sense on future human behavior, was quickly reduced to a historical curiosity.
There were, however, a few exceptions.One was Norma Dodsworth, the poet, who had not unpleasantly drunk but had been sensible enough to pass out before any violent action proved necessary. He had been...
The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be. Accidents, crimes, natural and man-made disasters, threats of conflict, gloomy editori...
The Ramans do everything in threes.
Meteorites don’t fall on the Earth. They fall on the Sun and the Earth gets in the way. - John W. Campbell
History never repeats itself—but historical situations recur. As
He’s a creature of today—not haunted by the past or fearful of the future!