Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.

The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realise about an ecosystem is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche. A system has order, flowing from point to point. If something dams that flow, order collapses. The untrained might miss that collapse until it was too late. That's why the highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.

In politics, the tripod is he most unstable of all structures. It's be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.