Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

I don’t believe in extraordinary concatenations of coincidence.

If I had felt then as I feel now, or as I felt a few years after I had married her, nothing could possibly have persuaded me to marry a woman who smoked. Dates, yes. Sexual adventures, yes. But to pin myself permanently inside closed quarters with a smoker? Never. Never. Never. Beauty wouldn't count, sweetness wouldn't count, suitability in every other respect wouldn't count.

Unfortunately, in many cases, people who write science fiction violate the laws of nature, not because they want to make a point, but because they don't know what the laws of nature are.

The world is being Americanized and technologized to its limits, and that makes it dull for some people. Reaching the Moon restores the frontier and gives us the lands beyond.

There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.