56 Quotes by Brian Aldiss

I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.

All over the world there must be far-reaching changes in animal behavior and habitat; if only one could have another life in which to chart it all....Ah, well, that's not a fruitful thing to wish, is it?

The shuffle only demonstrated people's fatuous belief in a political cure for a human condition.

If more people had put their fellow human beings before abstractions last century, we shouldn't be where we are now.

That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.

When knowledge becomes formulated into a science, then it does take on a life of it's own, often alien to the human spirit that conceived it.

My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.'

When you are young, you enjoy a sustained illusion that sooner or later something marvelous is going to happen, that you are going to transcend your parents' limitations.

I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.