Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.
The best means to an end are not always those that appear most direct.
The village is coming back, like it or not.
If we humans annihilate ourselves, mammalian genes are rich enough to replace us with another, maybe wiser race within a few million years. Perhaps descendants of coyotes or raccoons, creatures too ad...
Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.
We are, at our core, information pack rats and inveterate correlators.
But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.
Yes, but all that’s needed is to break reciprocity, he answered. By controlling information, making sure it flows one way. Take over the databases. Trump up panic situations, so the public will suppor...
Comment se fait-il, même, qu’il y ait eu des gens pour y croire ? Gordon haussa les épaules. — Ça s’appelait la technique du « gros mensonge », Johnny. Il suffit de donner l’impression qu’on sait de q...
Freedom was wonderful beyond relief. But with it came that bitch, Duty.
Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.
The greedy and the power-hungry will always look for ways to break the rules, or twist them to their advantage.
Obviously they thought their Lord was giving the haughty tirbeswoman
It may be that the best time for Otherness has already passed. Clearly part of the basis for this renaissance has been wealth, especially the unprecedented comfort enjoyed by the vast majority of West...
One of the most fascinating and effective kinds of lying is self-deception.
Way back, about a century ago, physicist Enrico Fermi and his colleagues, taking a lunch break from the Manhattan Project, found themselves discussing life in the cosmos. Some younger scientists claim...
A species used to strict patterns of inherited hierarchy.
Though his book vigorously promotes strong privacy, Miller notes that people routinely trade personal information for convenience or a few dollars of savings, even offering names of friends and famili...
Why is the future always … in the future?
New astronomy also had to adjust to the idea that what their senses told them everyday was untrue – that the world did not revolve around them alone.
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