If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
That's the harm of Close Encounters: that it convinces tens of millions that that's what just science fiction is.
It is not only the living who are killed in war.
I don’t like anything that’s got to be. I want to know why.
Inertia! Our ruling class knows one law; no change. Despotism! They know one rule; force. Maldistribution! They know one desire; to hold what is theirs.
Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us.