Can the synthesis of man and machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded?.

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software..

In fact, one of the arguments for searching for intelligent life in space, elsewhere, is that we have no evidence that intelligence has any survival ….

That's one of those meaningless and unanswerable questions the mind keeps returning to endlessly, like the tongue exploring a broken tooth..

I have encountered a few "creationists" and because they were usually nice, intelligent people, I have been unable to decide whether they were really….

In the long run, there are no secrets. in science. The universe will not cooperate in a cover-up..

Until we get rid of religion, we won't be able to conduct the search for God..

Since women are better at producing babies, presumably Nature has given men some talent to compensate. But for the moment I can't think of it..

Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying..

One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion..

The future is not to be forecast, but created..

Religion is a byproduct of fear..

In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - c….

I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about….

Though the man-apes often fought and wrestled one another, their disputes very seldom resulted in serious injuries. Having no claws or fighting canin….

The space elevator will be built about 50 years after everyone stops laughing..

Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favourite o….

To be a science fiction writer you must be interested in the future and you must feel that the future will be different and hopefully better than the….

If man survives for as long as the least successful of the dinosaurs-those creatures whom we often deride as nature's failures-then we may be certain….

I will not be afraid because I understand ... And understanding is happiness..

The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium..