Science-fiction Quotes

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?

You barbarians!' he yelled. 'I'll sue the council for every penny it's got! I'll have you hung, draw...

A five-week sand blizzard?" said Deep Thought haughtily. "You ask this of me who have contemplated t...

Life,” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.

The Googleplex Star Thinker is a super-computer from the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity and h...

And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man ...

Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other pe...

Zaphod had never heard of this. He believed that he had heard of all the fun things in the Galaxy, s...

The main reception foyer was almost empty but Ford nevertheless weaved his way through it.

The Machine is the friend of ideas and the enemy of superstition: the Machine is omnipotent, eternal...

I did not fear that I might tread upon a live rail and be killed. I feared something far more intang...

Night and day, wind and storm, tide and earthquake, impeded man no longer. He had harnessed Leviatha...

Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all ...

You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you...

Vashti was seized with the terrors of direct experience. She shrank back into the room, and the wall...

why Human should not look at the past?

As a mistress, death seemed lacking in many essentials. Therefore, I decided not to die.

We are between the wild thoat of certainty and the mad zitidar of fact.

I had aimed at Mars and was about to hit Venus unquestionably the all-time cosmic record for poor sh...

You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and ...

You can not go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not tha...

When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their wa...

I am a leg of the death tripod that will destroy our foes.

He who controls the spice controls the universe.

They compose poems to their knives.

I don't speak, I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.

It has occurred to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the inventi...

Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent mutual regard, unless each of u...

Most discipline is hidden discipline, designed not to liberate but to limit. Do not ask Why? Be caut...

The great mass of humankind possesses an unmistakable unit-identity. It can be one thing. It can act...

Liberty and Freedom are complex concepts. They go back to religious ideas of Free Will and are relat...

At the quantum level our universe can be seen as an indeterminate place, predictable in a statistica...

A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.

I let myself flop - so gently, so slowly - into my one real chair and tried to make myself understan...

I was worried about sex," he went on. "But you know what, Sulie? It's like being told I can't have a...

Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams.