Of all the sciences, astronomy was the one the superstitious liked least..

It had long been established in the Civil Worlds that public business was to be transparent, and personal business opaque; but it was as well recogni….

The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity controlling its own evolution or engineering itself -….

Hey, this is Europe. We took it from nobody; we won it from the bare soil that the ice left. The bones of our ancestors, and the stones of their work….

I enjoyed Old Man's War immensely. A space war story with fast action, vivid characters, moral complexity and cool speculative physics, set in a futu….

For us scientists, on the other wing, life is not quite so simple. Because we learn the unknown. Unlike, hah-hah, our esteemed friends the philosophe….

"Anyway... I find what you write interesting." "That's what people usually say when they disagree with it.".

Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens..

The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission..

What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?.

I don't really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet..

Change the problem by changing your mind..

I'm a long-term optimist, and I don't think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic..

Falling in love indicated that your genes were complementary to those of the loved one. It told you nothing about when your personalities and sexuali….

The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy..

Naive' is not a word I associate with the Southern Rule. Superstitious, perhaps, traditional, yes, maddeningly set in their way, certainly but not na….

The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing..

All life is a struggle for existence. Why should it cease to be a struggle if it spreads among the stars?.