Quotes About Reality

But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

science fiction is something that could happen - but usually you wouldn't want it to. Fantasy is something that couldn't happen - though often you only wish that it could.

If he was indeed mad, his delusions were beautifully organized.

It is a bitter thought, but you must face it. The planets you may one day possess. But the stars are not for man.

There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very far from escapism, in fact you might say that science fiction is escape into reality... It's a fiction which does concern itself with real issues: the origin of man; our future. In fact I can't think of any form of literature which is more concerned with real issues, reality.

He found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could she establish contact with the real world.

Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.

When the reality was depressing, men tried to console themselves with myth.

Training was one thing, reality another, and no one could be sure that the ancient human instincts of self-preservation would not take over in an emergency.

The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion.

Much blood has also been spilled on the carpet in attempts to distinguish between science fiction and fantasy. I have suggested an operational definition: science fiction is something that COULD happen - but usually you wouldn't want it to. Fantasy is something that COULDN'T happen - though often you only wish that it could.

So the problem of Evil never really existed. To expect the universe to be benevolent was like imagining one could always win at a game of pure chance.

There's an ancient philosophical joke that's much subtler than it seems. Question: Why is the Universe here? Answer: Where else would it be?

Even more alarming were persistent rumors that someone had smuggled an Emotion Amplifier on board 'Mentor'. The so-called joy machines were banned on all planets, except under strict medical control; but there would always be people to whom reality was not good enough, and who would want to try something better.

How foolish that expectation had been! He knew now that one might as well hope to see the wind, or speculate about the true shape of fire.

Do we use models to help us find the truth? Or do we know the truth first, and then develop the mathematics to explain it?

But there was no substitute for reality; one should beware of imitations.

But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger. A.C.C.

No utopia can ever give satisfaction to everyone, all the time.

science fiction is something that could happen—but usually you wouldn't want it to. Fantasy is something that couldn't happen—though often you only wish that it could.

Even if, to the naked human eye, a waterfall and a shower of bricks appeared very different, they were really much the same. The tiny "bricks" of H2O were too small to be visible to the unaided senses, but they could be easily discerned by the instruments of the physicists.

The universe was vast, but that fact terrified him less than its mystery. George was not a person who thought deeply on such matters, yet sometimes it seemed to him that men were like children amusing themselves in some secluded playground, protected from the fierce realities of the outer world.

Kat?l?yorum Tanya. Ama Haldane'in ünlü sözünü hat?rla: Evren sadece hayal ettiÄŸimizden daha garip deÄŸil; hayal edebileceÄŸimizden daha garip.

The evidence is confused with mysticism—perhaps the prime aberration of the human mind.