Only Time is universal; Night and Day are merely quaint local customs found on those planets that tidal forces have not yet robbed of their rotation. But however far they travel from their native worl...
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.
He’s a creature of today—not haunted by the past or fearful of the future!
For the last time, David Bowman slept.
Don’t believe anything I’ve told you—merely because I said it.
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.
Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
You can’t have action without reaction.
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 greatest danger is panic
Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence.
History never repeats itself—but historical situations recur. As
Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological
Because each of us is the sum of all we have ever experienced.
When beauty is universal, it loses its power to move the heart, and only its absence can produce any emotional effect.
The dismantling of the vast and wholly parasitic armaments industry had given an unprecedented—sometimes, indeed, unhealthy—boost to the world economy. No longer were vital raw materials and brilliant...
The crew of Apollo 8, who at Christmas, 1968, became the first men ever to set eyes upon the Lunar Farside, told me that they had been tempted to radio back the discovery of a large black monolith: al...