It was fascinating to watch that agile mind trying one opening after another, testing and rejecting all the theories that Stormgren himself had abandoned long ago.
Science fiction could now be made far more convincing by science fact.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
The best proof that there’s intelligent life in outer space is the fact that it hasn’t come here.
The Moon is the first milestone on the road to the stars.
One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.
The goal of the future is full unemployment.
Until we get rid of religion, we won’t be able to conduct the search for God.
Civilization will reach maturity only when it learns to value diversity of character and of ideas.
The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That’s why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.
I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent.
I’m sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It’s just been too intelligent to come here.
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.
Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.
I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.
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.
Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.