Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
~ Isaac Asimov
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
