Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night..

To me it seems to be important to believe people to be good even if they tend to be bad, because your own joy and happiness in life is increased that….

Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough?.

Arthur Clarke says that I am first in science and second in science fiction in accordance with an agreement we have made. I say he is first in scienc….

I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually un….

We are all victimized by the natural perversity of inanimate objects...and the assorted human beings who perpetuate and maintain this perversity..

The young specialist in English Lit, ...lectured me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the Universe at la….

The Bible contains legendary, historical, and ethical contents. It is quite possible to consider them separately, and one doesn't have to accept the ….

Words are a pretty fuzzy substitute for mathematical equations..

When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the se….

True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily "dumbing down.".

To all my gentle readers who have treated me with love for over 30 years, I must say farewell. It has always been my ambition to die in harness with ….

I even got a letter from a young woman in British Columbia that began as follows: 'Today I am eighteen. I am sitting at the window, looking out at th….

The spell of power never quite releases its hold..

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 do….

What do you call that nice, shiny white metal they use to make sidings and airplanes out of? Aluminum, right? Aluminum, pronounced 'uh-LOO-mih-num', ….

We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood..

Tell me why the stars do shine, Tell me why the ivy twines, Tell me what makes skies so blue, And I'll tell you why I love you. Nuclear fusion makes ….

Education isn't something you can finish.

The fundamentalists deny that evolution has taken place; they deny that the earth and the universe as a whole are more than a few thousand years old,….

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them..