He did not know that the Old One was his father, for such a relationship was utterly beyond his understanding, but as he looked at the emaciated body he felt a dim disquiet that was the ancestor of sadness.
But it had been widely argued that advanced intelligence could never arise in the sea; there were not enough challenges in so benign and unvarying an environment.
My dear Rikki,” Karellen retorted, “it’s only by not taking the human race seriously that I retain what fragments of my once considerable mental powers I still possess!” Despite himself, Stormgren smiled.
Problems seldom go away if they’re ignored.
Unlike the animals, who knew only the present, Man had acquired a past; and he was beginning to grope toward a future.
Don’t believe anything I’ve told you – merely because I said it.
Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did not expect to do it himself.
Men knew better than they realized, when they placed the abode of the gods beyond the reach of gravity.
Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets.
Mammoths, building a signal to Mars, on the North American ice cap.
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.