Science Fiction Quotes - Page 4

Daisies are perennials; they always grow back.

I simply regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world created therein has different rules than my regular human world.

Knowing all the languages in the world could help you to really understand all the jokes you can hear... from my future Kids' Funny Business.

Improving intelligence is possible, but it is more likely to occur if children are given the right experiences at the right ages.

When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.

What is more precious: a thousand answers derived from one question? Or, one answer…from a thousand questions?

The will of God or the lunacy of man - it seemed to him that you could take your choice, if you wanted a good enough reason for most things. Or, alternatively (and he thought of it as he contemplated the small orderliness of the cabin against the window background of such frantic natural scenery), the will of man and the lunacy of God.

The assumption of no God cannot be proven by science." - Scientific Faith
"Under the Thelián Sky: Beyond the Great Unknown" (c) 2012

Where have all the Fembots gone?

How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean.

I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws.

Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams.

A recent survey of 2,000 male graduates of Harvard Business School
found that penis length & IQ were equally good predictors of annual
income. - from "Eugene

You can scoff at opinions. You can reject hypotheses. You can discard theories out of hand. But you cannot reject the facts

You have to think if we've been visited by extraterrestrial life, it was like a zookeeper walking into the chimp enclosure: He looks around, takes some pictures, then leaves without interacting significantly with the environment. Meanwhile the chimps have no idea what the fuck just happened.

Is it painful?" the groundskeeper asked. "I am asking for science.

Wit had conquered science by laughing it out of court.

science enables you to look things differently.

Meteorites don’t fall on the Earth. They fall on the Sun and the Earth gets in the way.” - John W. Campbell

If patterns of ones and zeroes were "like" patterns of human lives and deaths, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long strings of ones and zeroes, then what kind of creature could be represented by a long string of lives and deaths?