Occupation: Author Birth: November 25, 1926 Death: July 31, 2001
Heaven is not as narrowly literal-minded as hell..
He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it..
Colonization means potential immortality for the human genus. Man's safety on Earth was never great, and it dwindles hourly. Disarmament, even world ….
So much American science fiction is parochial - not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one culture in the future, more or less li….
I think the first duty of all art, including fiction of any kind, is to entertain. That is to say, to hold interest. No matter how worthy the message….
At each stage...entirely new laws, concepts and generalizations are necessary, requiring inspiration and creativity to just as great a degree as in t….
In my considered opinion, the profit to be made by permanent settlement in space is nothing less than the survival of industrial civilization, and th….
It is a truism that the structure of a society is basically determined by its technology. Not in an absolute sense-there may be totally different cul….
You know what they say about bold spacemen never becoming old spacemen..
We live with our archetypes, but can we live in them?.
Will none wipe the sneer off the face of the cosmos?.
Why do people in this age think their own impoverished lives must be the norm of the universe?.