“To write a novel is to dream while awake, then express the dream to the reader in an absorbing way. The road leading from the writer's inner world to the readers' is paved with prose.”

“Today, religion is systematized, formalized group worship. Its packaged. We dont live the divine any longer, we only hear or read about it.”

“Most people live out ordinary lives by denying death. Others live more completely because theyre aware of it. I choose the second group.”

“Myths grew from the ancient tradition of passing on knowledge orally, the only means of doing so before writing.Theyre narratives of human existence. They helped our ancestors interpret reality, so...”

“Art sometimes imitates life. When it does, science fiction presages what form that life may take.”

“Paranormal phenomena are only acollection of abilities that challenge known science.Physical lawsdont explained them. You have to go beyond the limits of traditionalcategories to make any sense of ...”

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettie...”

“To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. ”

“The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.”

“Science has the capacity to uplift us to heights of undreamed of sophistication and quality of life or to drag us down into an abyss, from which we may never return. I do not believe science and/or...”

“We realized that among us, among all the races, we had a staggering fund of knowledge and of techniques - that working together, by putting together all this knowledge and capability, we could arri...”

“It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.”

“Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.”