"The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do"

"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage"

"Science never solves a problem without creating ten more"

"All science is either physics or stamp collecting"

"If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic"

"The science of today is the technology of tomorrow"

"He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion"

"Science does not know its debt to imagination"

"Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth"

"Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense"

"To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science"