The one fact about the future of which we can be certain is that it will be utterly fantastic.

Humor was the enemy of desire.

Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.

One can imagine a time when men who still inhabit organic bodies are regarded with pity by those who have passed on to an infinitely richer mode of existence, capable of throwing their consciousness or sphere of attention instantaneously to any point on land, sea, or sky where there is a suitable sensing organ. In adolescence we leave childhood behind; one day there may be a second and more portentous adolescence, when we bid farewell to the flesh.

Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction.

Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.

Perhaps no other year before or since 1984 has been awaited with such eager anticipation.