I’m sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It’s just been too intelligent to come here.
I’m sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It’s just been too intelligent to come here.
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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.
1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.
It is a good principle in science not to believe any ‘fact’—however well attested—until it fits into some accepted frame of reference. Occasionally, of course, an observation can shatter the frame and force the construction of a new one, but that is extremely rare. Galileos and Einsteins seldom appear more than once per century, which is just as well for the equanimity of mankind.
I’m sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It’s just been too intelligent to come here.
Now I’m a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.
In this single galaxy of ours there are eighty-seven thousand million suns. […] In challenging it, you would be like ants attempting to label and classify all the grains of sand in all the deserts of the world. […] It is a bitter thought, but you must face it. The planets you may one day possess. But the stars are not for man.
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.
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth, when it is clearly Ocean.
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
And yet—this fascination with the future has generated its own antithesis, particularly in the so-called affluent or developed societies. There is a growing disenchantment with progress (however this may be defined) and even a feeling that, in many directions, we have already gone too far.
In pure science, you can be pretty sure that nothing fundamental is ever discovered by anyone who’s actually looking for it — that’s half the fun of the game
Meteorites don’t fall on the Earth. They fall on the Sun and the Earth gets in the way.” – John W. Campbell