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- This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
- 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…
- As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.
- One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of the…
- If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run-and often in the short one-the…
- One orbit, with a radius of 42,000 kilometers, has a period of exactly 24 hours. A body in such an orbit, if its plane coincided…
- One theory which can no longer be taken very seriously is that UFOs are interstellar spaceships.
- I suspect that religion is a necessary evil in the childhood of our particular species. And that's one of the interesting things about contact with…
- The crossing of space ... may do much to turn men's minds outwards and away from their present tribal squabbles. In this sense, the rocket,…
- I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.
- It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.
- Training was one thing, reality another.
- The choice, as Wells once said, is the Universe-or nothing. . . . The challenge of the great spaces between the worlds is a stupendous…
- The realisation that our small planet is only one of many worlds gives mankind the perspective it needs to realise sooner that our own world…
- 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…
- I think in the long run the money that s been put into the space program is one of the best investments this country has…
- Even if we never reach the stars by our own efforts, in the millions of years that lie ahead it is almost certain that the…
- No one of intelligence resents the inevitable.
- One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a…
- . . . Moon-Watcher felt the first faint twinges of a new and potent emotion. It was a vague and diffuse sense of envy--of dissatisfaction…
- In this universe the night was falling; the shadows were lengthening towards an east that would not know another dawn. But elsewhere the stars were…
- It is a good principle in science not to believe any 'fact'---however well attested---until it fits into some accepted frame of reference. Occasionally, of course,…
- Almost any seat was comfortable at one-sixth of a gravity.
- All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe.
- Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the…
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