#science-fiction

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

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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

"We all know interspecies romance is weird."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"Where have all the Fembots gone?"