Sci-Fi
Science Fiction
Arthur C. Clarke on Science Fiction
“Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.”
John F. Kennedy on Politics
“The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.”
Bill Watterson on Intelligent Life
“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
Doctor Who on Maturity
“There’s no point in being grown up if you can’t be childish sometimes.”
William Gibson on Futurism
“The future is here. It’s just not widely distributed yet.”
Frank Borman on Humanity and Progress
“Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.”
H. P. Lovecraft Cynical Quote
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.”
Albert Einstein on Wisdom at Solving Problems
“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”
Frank Herbert on Knowledge
“The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.”
Poul Anderson on Problems
“I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.”
John Sladek on the Future
“The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.”
Douglas Adams on Space
“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.”
Yoda Wisdom Quote
“Do or do not… there is no try.”
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.”
Sir Arthur Eddington on the Universe
“Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.”
Albert Einstein on Imagination
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
Isaac Asimov on Computers
“Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.”
Isaac Asimov on Science
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny… ‘
Arthur C. Clarke on Technology
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
Niels Bohr on the Future
“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.”
Frank Herbert on Science Fiction
“The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.”
Philip K. Dick on Reality
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”
Albert Einstein on Solving Problems
“The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation.”
Omar N. Bradley on Technology and Wisdom
“If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.”
Robert Heinlein on Progress
“Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.”