Science is the only religion of mankind.
Meteorites don’t fall on the Earth. They fall on the Sun and the Earth gets in the way. - John W. Campbell
Here was a revelation which no one could doubt or deny; here, seen by unknown magic of Overlord science, were the true beginnings of all the world's great faiths. Most of them were noble and inspiring...
He felt confident that when he pulled open the drawer of that desk, he would find a Gideon Bible inside it….
At some signal, floodlights around the lip of the crater were switched on, and the bright earthlight was obliterated by a far more brilliant glare. In the lunar vacuum the beams were, of course, compl...
Anything that had happened once on Earth should be expected millions of times elsewhere in the Universe; that was almost an article of faith among scientists.
After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.
A hundred failures would not matter, when one single success could change the destiny of the world.
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.
Yet there was also something slightly spooky about them. Norton could never understand how men with advanced scientific and technical training could possibly believe some of the things he had heard Co...
There was no objection when he said: I’m going after it. Nor did he expect there to be; his life was now his own, to do with as he pleased. He
Reliability depended on redundancy and automatic checking, and human intervention was much more likely to do harm than good.
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.
Now that so many of its psychological problems had been removed, humanity was far saner and less irrational. And what earlier ages would have called vice was now no more than eccentricity—or, at the w...
Long ago it had been discovered that without some crime or disorder, Utopia soon became unbearably dull.
Jupiter's fly-by had been carried out with impeccable precision. Like a ball on a cosmic pool table, Discovery had bounced off the moving gravitational field of Jupiter, and had gained momentum from t...
I am a HAL Nine Thousand computer Production Number 3. I became operational at the Hal Plant in Urbana, Illinois, on January 12, 1997.
He was moving through a new order of creation, of which few men had ever dreamed. Beyond the realms of sea and land and air and space lay the realms of fire, which he alone had been privileged to glim...
First rule of government of the people, by the people, for the people: Never tell the people!