707 Quotes About Sci-fi

An old adage warns: If you don't know your history, you will be forever condemned to repeat it. Likewise, if you don't know your science fiction, and heed its warnings, you could condemn the Earth to future catastrophe.

A large chunk of the shuttle's wrecked fuselage sparked and disconnected with a wheezing raspberry. Lis and Palaxa stared at the fizzing rubble and caught each other's eye. Both burst into peals of laughter.

It depends on you how you mold them and shape their thinking. Depending on the values they get from you, they will either be the angels or demons of time.

I am not a goddess. I was human once. Millions of years of evolution introduced genetic changes into our species. We found a way to traverse time, to manipulate it, to inverse it. Before the universe went into the reverse crunch, we left our physical bodies. …

… They are the ones who documented the mantra, which is my invocation call. They used to word Devi out of respect, which your translation interpreted as goddess. However, I am not duty bound to serve your endless wishes.

I want to breath the same air as you every minute of every day of my life. No matter how many timelines I live.

Bees? Are you telling me we have space bees?

Being common doesn't make something right.

...he slipped into the hallway with a second-hand paperback copy of 'The Mote in God's Eye' under one arm, intending to read it in a quiet corner of Misto's coffee shop. He deemed the book to have previously been read on a sultry tropical beach, given that its yellowed pages were as corrugated as a ploughed field.