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.

Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do?

... chemistry is a trade for people without enough imagination to be physicists.

The phenomenon of UFO doesn't say anything about the presence of intelligence in space. It just shows how rare it is here on the earth.

As three laws were good enough for Newton, I have modestly decided to stop there.

The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion.

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