“Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Sci-Fi
Douglas Adams on Space
Doctor Who on Maturity
“There’s no point in being grown up if you can’t be childish sometimes.” Continue reading
Arthur C. Clarke on Technology
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Continue reading
R. Buckminster Fuller on Technology
“Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.” Continue reading
John Sladek on the Future
“The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.” Continue reading
William S. Burroughs on Politics and Science Fiction
“After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’ “ Continue reading
Arthur C. Clarke on Technology
“The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.” Continue reading
Frank Herbert on Knowledge
“The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.” Continue reading
Carl Sagan on Imagination
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.” Continue reading
Arthur C. Clarke on Technology
“At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved – if it can be achieved at all – within the next few hundred years.” Continue reading
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