When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
To insult someone we call him 'bestial.' For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
Scientific research consists in seeing what everyone else has seen, but thinking what no one else has thought.
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today, but the core of science fiction—its essence—has become crucial to our salvation, if we are to be saved at all.
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an insatiable curiosity and a stubborn refusal to quit.
Knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable.
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny.
Can Americans choose the proper leaders and support the proper programs if they themselves are scientifically illiterate?
Ten years on the moon could tell us more about the universe than a thousand years on the earth might be able to.
There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state.
Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Khía cạnh đáng buồn nhất của cuộc sống bây giờ là khoa học thu thập kiến thức nhanh hơn so với xã hội thu thập trí tuệ.