Our own grandchildren may demonstrate that-sometimes- Gigantic is Beautiful.

Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.

Why, Robert Singh often wondered, did we give our hearts to friends whose life spans are so much shorter than our own?

Science is the only religion of mankind.

Getting information from the internet is like getting a glass of water from the Niagara Falls.

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.

To be a science fiction writer you must be interested in the future and you must feel that the future will be different and hopefully better than the present. Although I know that most - that many science fiction writings have been anti-utopias. And the reason for that is that it's much easier and more exciting to write about a really nasty future than a - placid, peaceful one.