I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.

No wires tender even as nervescan transmit the impact ofour seasons, our catastropheswhile we are closed inside them

Our biggest technology that we ever, ever invented was articulated language with built-out grammar. It is that that allows us to imagine things far in the future and things way back in the past.

I define science fiction as fiction in which things happen that are not possible today - that depend, for instance, on advanced space travel, time travel, the discovery of green monsters on other planets or galaxies, or that contain various technologies we have not yet developed.

Science is not something that exists apart from human beings. It's one of the things we do as human beings, and we always have done science and technology in some form.