It is the invariable lesson to humanity that distance in time, and in space as well, lends focus. It is not recorded, incidentally, that the lesson h….

If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of….

Theories are not so much wrong as incomplete.

I can't bear to hear a human being spoken of with contempt just because of his group identification...It's these respectable people here who create t….

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, it….

All humanity could share a common insanity and be immersed in a common illusion while living in a common chaos. That can't be disproved, but we have ….

If you ask for too much, you lose even that which you have..

If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven….

One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do, it is not necessarily the most useful….

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety..

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value..

As artists and traders in medieval cities began to form organizations, they instituted tough initiation ceremonies. Journeymen in Bergen, Norway, wer….

It seems to me that God is a convenient invention of the human mind.

Considering what human beings do and have done to human beings (and to other living things as well) ... I can never imagine what the devil people thi….

From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed….

Despite all that education and experience can do, I retain a certain level of unsophistication that I cannot eradicate and that my friends find amusi….

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today..

John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who….

No matter how carefully records are kept and filed and computerized, they grow fuzzy with time. Stories grow by accretion. Tales accumulate--like dus….

Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, and in such a Reality the stars are out of reach..

With both people and computers on the job, computer error can be more quickly tracked down and corrected by people and, conversely, human error can b….