#science-fiction

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

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

"[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."

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

"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."

"Where have all the Fembots gone?"

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

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

"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."

"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..."

"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."

"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."

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

"We all know interspecies romance is weird."

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

"I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws."

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