Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.

But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.

'The Devil in the Dark' impressed me because it presented the idea, unusual in science fiction then and now, that something weird, and even dangerous, need not be malevolent. That is a lesson that many of today's politicians have yet to learn.

In the long run, there are no secrets. in science. The universe will not cooperate in a cover-up.

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

This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.