#science-fiction

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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 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."

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

"We all know interspecies romance is weird."

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

"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."

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."

"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."

"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."