18 quotes
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
Science fiction may be defined as that branch of literature which deals with the response of human beings to advances in science and technology.
Escape Into Reality (1957)
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!', but 'That's funny ...'
The job of science will never be done, it will just sink deeper and deeper into never-ending complexity.
The Secrets of the Universe (1989)
It is the nature of science that answers automatically pose new and more subtle questions.
Science fiction is that branch of literature that deals with human responses to changes in the level of science and technology.
How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection.
The Roving Mind (1983)
Science fiction offers its writers chances of embarrassment that no other form of fiction does.
Robot Dreams (1986)
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
I consider one of the most important duties of any scientist the teaching of science to students and to the general public.
Science is in far greater danger from the absence of challenge than from the coming of any number of even absurd challenges.
For it is the chief characteristic of the religion of science, that it works, and that such curses as that of Aporat's are really deadly.
The Foundation series (1951)
There is more to a science fiction story than the science it contains. There is also the story.
Robot Dreams (1986)
There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance only implies ignorance that may someday be conquered. To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
The history of science is full of revolutionary advances that required small insights that anyone might have had, but that, in fact, only one person did.
No matter how various the subject matter I write on, I was a science-fiction writer first and it is as a science-fiction writer that I want to be identified.
In Joy Still Felt (1980)
Scientific theories can always be improved and are improved. That is one of the glories of science. It is the authoritarian view of the Universe that is frozen in stone and cannot be changed, so that once it is wrong, it is wrong forever.
The Nearest Star (1989)
Plowboy: You truly feel that all the major changes in history have been caused by science and technology?
Mother Earth News interview (1980)