Science-fiction Quotes

The state exists for man,not man for the state.The same may be said ofscience. These are old phrases...

He had allowed the advertisers to multiply his wants; he had learned to equate happiness with posses...

Stability,” insisted the Controller, “stability. The primal and the ultimate need. Stability. Hence ...

Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation.

Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

Rams wrapped in thermogene beget no lambs.

The mind is the reality. You are what you think.

Science fiction is held in low regard as a branch of literature, and perhaps it deserves this critic...

I love analogies! Let’s have one.Imagine that you dearly love, absolutely crave, a particular kind o...

The single word that directs a person’s fate and ultimately the fates of those she comes in contact ...

I’ve been thinking about it, since you said it,” said Seivarden. No, said Mercy of Kalr. “And I’ve c...

Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.

There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. Bu...

And so Discovery drove on toward Saturn, as often as not pulsating with the cool music of the harpsi...

Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with simil...

How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible

Sometimes, during the lonely hours on the control deck, Bowman would listen to this radiation. He wo...

Oh God, there were so many stars you could have used. What was the need to give these people to the ...

(...)Through the ship's telescopes, he had watched the death of the solar system. With his own eyes,...

Slowly, Jimmy held up his outstretched hands. Men had been arguing for two hundred years about this ...

There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attain...

..the happy hum of humanity.

In this universe the night was falling; the shadows were lengthening towards an east that would not ...

Bowman was aware of some changes in his behavior patterns; it would have been absurd to expect anyth...

Imagine that every man’s mind is an island, surrounded by ocean. Each seems isolated, yet in reality...

Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, ...

Even more alarming were persistent rumors that someone had smuggled an Emotion Amplifier on board 'M...

In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame...

The Chairman glared across three hundred and eighty thousand kilometers of space at Conrad Taylor, w...

Feeling extremely foolish, the acting representative of Homo sapiens watched his First Contact strid...

Just like the cosmonauts and their pee plants, all we have is each other.

Meteorites don’t fall on the Earth. They fall on the Sun and the Earth gets in the way.” - John W. C...

Once, I believed that space couldhave no power over faith, just as I believed the heavens declared t...

The art of fiction has not changed much since prehistoric times. The formula for telling a powerful ...

If you can read the book and say, ‘Space Marines, YEEEAAAHHH!’ That’s Military Science Fiction.” (Br...

The future is unwritten. there are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. both of them...

If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jest...

Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and h...

Science fiction is a dialogue, a tennis match, in which the Idea is volleyed from one side of the ne...

The t'ca [ship] left them, rolled and slewed off in a maneuver that made sense to a multi-brained sn...

I felt sure that [Oyarsa] was what we call "good," but I wasn't sure whether I liked "goodness" so m...

Many reviews are useless because, while purporting to condemn the book, they only reveal the reviewe...

Hence the uneasiness which they arouse in those who, for whatever reason, wish to keep us wholly imp...

(Of the main character seeing a new world for the first time.) The air was cold but not bitterly so,...

I think He made one law of that kind in order that there might be obedience. In all these other matt...

It is not for nothing that you are named Ransom,” said the Voice...The whole distinction between thi...

Adolf Hitler! Ken, it makes me furious. Forty million people die to defeat that megalomaniac, and he...

Let's see if I got this right," she would say to herself. "I've taken an inert gas that's in the air...

The rules of physics are, in some cases, suspiciously anthropic.

I am the Eschaton. I am not your God.I am descended from you, and exist in your future.Thou shalt no...

This has serveral consequences, starting with screwing over most cryptography algorithms--translatio...

The sound came again. There was a whistle to it, and a moan. It was almost a hiss, and it could’ve b...

I think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. The...

If I program ’ware with an Anglo-Ubiq word and play it, you understand it,” Scile said. “If I do the...

In a roundabout way, Boba Fett created Pearl Jam.

I can't go back," said Towser. "Nor I," said Fowler. "They would turn me back into a dog," said Tows...

I trade with you my mind.

We realized that among us, among all the races, we had a staggering fund of knowledge and of techniq...

Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the ...

By focusing on the interior of a speaker's larynx and using infrared, he was able to convert the vis...

I was there, the day that Horus killed the Emperor

The Emperor, you see, protects... He protects mankind, through the Legions, through the Martial corp...

Enemy?’ Horus laughed. ‘When did they become the enemy? They are men like us.’ He glared up at the n...

Caches of data are being recovered all the time. Why, just the other day, I heard that we now had co...

Good science fiction has its roots in good science.

Isn’t antimatter what fuels the U.S.S.Enterprise?

Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men.A child may not know how to feed itself, or what...

Everyone will be tracked, cradle to grave, with no possibility of escape.

As sci-fi writer Theodore Sturgeon said, 90 percent of everything is crap. But science fiction has n...

Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: tha...

The health of an enlightened and progressive society is measured by how vibrant is its science ficti...

It’s a bizarre act of self-mutilation to say that ‘I don’t get on with science fiction and fantasy, ...

To enslave an individual troubles your consciences, Archivist, but to enslave a clone is no more tro...

Life’s more science-fictiony by the day.

1620Each quantum event, each of the trillions of times reality’s particles interact with each other ...

Laser beams slid around them, spurts of light sinking through the darkness, eventually touching the ...

When I was small, I never wanted to step in puddles. Not because of any fear of drowned worms or wet...

Everybody wants to own the end of the world.

Conceited little mega-puppy.

Marvin: Look, look, no, just think. They left me - an ordinary, menial robot - to stop you - a gigan...

One moment I was sitting in your ship feeling very depressed, and the next moment I was standing her...

Now logic is a wonderful thing but it has, as the process of evolution discovered, certain drawbacks...

No," he said, "look, it's very, very simple ... all I want ... is a cup of tea. You are going to mak...

Don't Panic

You mean you've been in this same set of rooms here for... two hundred years?' murmured Richard. 'Yo...

Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in, as Arthur Dent could testify, having been lost...

My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and...

When one day an expedition was sent to the spatial coordinates that Voojagig had claimed for the pla...

The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one ...

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys...

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sen...

In other words - and this is the rock-solid principle on which the whole of the Corporation's Galaxy...

This is flight 121 to Los Angeles. If your travel plans today do not include Los Angeles, now would ...

Don't blame you," said Marvin and counted five hundred and ninety-seven thousand million sheep befor...

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?

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How many roads must a man walk down?