Everybody on this island has one ambition, which may be summed up very simply. It is to do something, however small it may be, better than anyone else. Of course, it’s an ideal we don’t all achieve. B...
But was even this the end? A few mystically inclined biologists went still further. They speculated, taking their cues from the beliefs of many religions, that mind would eventually free itself from m...
They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of absolute omnipotence;
They could not eat it, and it could not eat them; therefore it was not important.
There was awe, and there was also incredulity—sheer disbelief that the dead Moon, of all worlds, could have sprung this fantastic surprise.
The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children.
The time has come, said Dr. Dimitri Moisevitch to his old friend Heywood Floyd, to talk of many things. Of shoes and spaceships and sealing wax, but mostly of monoliths and malfunctioning computers.
The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion.
Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets.
Open the pod bay doors, Hal.
Miss Pringle was not much larger than the handheld personal assistants of his own age, and usually lived, like the Old West’s Colt 45, in a quick-draw holster at his waist.
I would be greatly distressed if this book contributed still further to the seduction of the gullible, now cynically exploited by all the media.
Even by the twenty-second century, no way had yet been discovered of keeping elderly and conservative scientists from occupying crucial administrative positions. Indeed, it was doubted if the problem...
And if there was anything beyond that, its name could only be God.
And even if Einstein could not be defied, he might be evaded. Those who sponsored this view talked hopefully about shortcuts through higher dimensions, lines that were straighter than straight, and hy...
A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.
Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.
The rash assertion that "God made man in His own image" is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths.
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
Unlike the animals, who knew only the present, Man had acquired a past; and he was beginning to grope toward a future.