Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

If children have interests, then education happens.

Creationism, perhaps the most pernicious of the intellectual perversions now afflicting the American public.

One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of the mind. Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

. . . Moon-Watcher felt the first faint twinges of a new and potent emotion. It was a vague and diffuse sense of envy--of dissatisfaction with his life. He had no idea of its cause, still less of its cure; but discontent had come into his soul, and he had taken one small step toward humanity.

It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.

Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened.