#science-fiction

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

"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."

"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..."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"We all know interspecies romance is weird."

"[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!"

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

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

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

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

"My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes."

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

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

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

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

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