#science-fiction

"Science Fiction: Any scientific acclaim that omits God."

"Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's an imbecile."

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

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

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

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."

"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."

"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."

"Improving intelligence is possible, but it is more likely to occur if children are given the right experiences at the right ages."

"[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it!"

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

"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."

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

"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..."

"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."