Some of our greatest novels are science fiction novels. It is safe to assume that greatest science fiction writers have been endowed some of the greatest minds among humanities. Here is some great quotes from them (L. Ron Hubbard is an exception, I don't think he is a great science fiction writer):
“A Faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.”
-- Arthur C. Clarke, writer of 2001: A Space Odissey, Rendezvous with Rama, etc.
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.“
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.“
-- Phillip K. Dick, writer of The Man in The High Castle, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, etc.
"If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them."
"If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them."
-- Isaac Asimov, writer of Foundation Trilogy, Robot Series, etc.
“If I am right, then they (religious fundamentalists) will not go to heaven, because there is no heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to heaven, because they are hypocrites.”
“If I am right, then they (religious fundamentalists) will not go to heaven, because there is no heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to heaven, because they are hypocrites.”
-- Isaac Asimov
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
--Isaac Asimov
As an atheist, I believe that all life is unspeakably precious, because it’s only here for a brief moment, a flare against the dark, and then it’s gone forever.
As an atheist, I believe that all life is unspeakably precious, because it’s only here for a brief moment, a flare against the dark, and then it’s gone forever.
- J. Michael Straczynski, creator and writer of Babylon 5
“You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.“
“You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.“
-- L. Ron Hubbard, writer of Dianetics, founder of Scientology
Take sex away from people. Make it forbidden, evil. Limit it to ritualistic breeding. Force it to back up into suppressed sadism. Then hand the people a scapegoat to hate. Let them kill a scapegoat occasionally for cathartic release. The mechanism is ages old. Tyrants used it centuries before the word "psychology" was ever invented. It works, too.
Take sex away from people. Make it forbidden, evil. Limit it to ritualistic breeding. Force it to back up into suppressed sadism. Then hand the people a scapegoat to hate. Let them kill a scapegoat occasionally for cathartic release. The mechanism is ages old. Tyrants used it centuries before the word "psychology" was ever invented. It works, too.
-- Robert A. Heinlein, writer of Starship Trooper, Stranger in a Strange Land, etc.
You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.
-- Robert A. HeinleinYou have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.
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