Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.
“Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.”
The World Motivation
Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.
“Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.”
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“Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.”
“They have not forgotten the Mysteries,' she said, ‘they have found them too difficult. They want a God who will care for them, who will not demand that they struggle for enlightenment, but who will accept them just as they are, with all their sins, and take away their sins with repentance. It is not so, it will never be so, but perhaps it is the only way the unenlightened can bear to think of their Gods.'”
“To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.”
“We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex.”
“God is one and there is but one God — all else is but the way the ignorant seek to put Gods into a form they can understand...”
“Was it that all of you can’t afford shrimp? Can’t cook? If you can’t cook then this book is of no use to you. Actually, the problem is clear. If all of you would stop taking amphetamines you would regain your fucking appetites!”
“I haven't read a lot of science fiction, and I never intend to write it; it seems to happen a little bit inadvertently for me, in that I'm trying to follow people into points in their lives that demand that I investigate the future.”
“To advance science is highly honourable, and I believe the institution of the Nobel Prizes has done much to raise the prestige of scientific discovery.”
“Religion makes people kill each other. Science supplies them with weapons.”
“Sometimes I think Earth has got to be the insane asylum of the universe. . . and I'm here by computer error. At sixty-eight, I hope I've gained some wisdom in the past fourteen lustrums and it’s obligatory to speak plain and true about the conclusions I've come to; now that I have been educated to believe by such mentors as Wells, Stapledon, Heinlein, van Vogt, Clarke, Pohl, (S. Fowler) Wright, Orwell, Taine, Temple, Gernsback, Campbell and other seminal influences in scientifiction, I regret the lack of any female writers but only Radclyffe Hall opened my eyes outside sci-fi.”