#science-fiction

"I simply regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world created therein has different rules than my regular human world."

"Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?"

"What is more precious: a thousand answers derived from one question? Or, one answer…from a thousand questions?"

"Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea."

"We'd stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You'd think that would make us feel brave and invincible. It didn't."

"A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam."

"We all know interspecies romance is weird."

"Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws."

"When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late."

"Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe."

"Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art."

"Ilmselt on ikka tõsi, et valguse kiirusest kiiremini liikuda ei saa, ja seetõttu on kõik kosmoses elavad eluvormid kohutavalt pikaealised.Ja see meie elu planeedil on vaid mingi tõukude-periood, tõukude tase. Et meil tuleb nukkuda ja saada liblikateks, aga ka siis oleme kohutavalt lühiealised ja täiesti juhmid võrreldes selle maailma tõeliste peremeestega, keda me isegi näha ei oska..."

"Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams."

"I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room."

"It's impossible to walk through solid rock... You have to walk between the molecules that make up the rock."

"The fact that you can't see how much you're worth makes you worth so much more."She opened her mouth once, her brow bunched, but nothing came out. She didn't know the words to ask. I continued. "A diamond doesn't know how much it's worth; it's just beautiful because it exists."

"Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination."

"How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth,"when it is clearly "Ocean."

"Knowledge is like an endless resource; a well of water that satisfies the innate thirst of the growing human soul. Therefore never stop learning... because the day you do, you will also stop maturing."

"A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon."