Reputation never has very much to do with reality. I could name half a dozen paragons of virtue that are horrible, small-souled, evil people. And some of the best men I know, you'd walk out of the roo...
Humans would never tell the simple truth when a lie was available....
Humans were still not only the cheapest robots around, but also, for many tasks, the only robots that could do the job. They were self-reproducing robots too. They showed up and worked generation afte...
Fiction is the evidence that reality exists
For chocolate's sake!
Sci-fi doesn't show me much about alien's nature but shows a lot about North American nature.
Slowly, Jimmy held up his outstretched hands. Men had been arguing for two hundred years about this gesture; would every creature, everywhere in the universe, interpret this as "See--no weapons"? But...
Better world's when we change by simulating the technology NOT the Homo sapiens
Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know.
They are not free at all. They are essentially our prisoners.
So. Our little pearl of warmth, our spinning orrery of lives, our island, our beloved solar system, our hearth and home, tight and burnished in the warmth of the sun—and then—these starships we are ma...
How many roads must a man walk down?
He had been trying to measure the distance between the earth and God.
Science Fiction properly conceived, like all serious fiction, however funny, is a way of trying to describe what is going on, what people actually do and feel, how people relate to everything else in...
Everything in this world, as well as the world itself, strives for balance and harmony. Electron reaches proton, male tends to female, light replaces darkness, life is balanced by death, and vice vers...
Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.
There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.
science enables you to look things differently.
Sometimes people say that we're living in the future, and time's up for science fiction, but I think that never will be, because science fiction really isn't about the future. It's about change and pr...
The most important rule when assessing abductive arguments is to consider alternative explanations. When we are presented with an explanation that sounds plausible, too often we simply accept it witho...