"What I really wanted to do was just have this sonic boom, with a flash, and have the level change on you instantly."

"To me it is not in the least demeaning that consciousness and intelligence are the result of “mere” matter sufficiently complexly arranged; on the contrary, it is an exalting tribute to the subtlety o…"

"As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever. The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he belie…"

"I believe that is one of my stories that has a prose that is quite straight-forward and less lyrical, so it was a different type of writing that I enjoyed exploring. I’d always wanted to write an expo…"

"The Reformation was a popular uprising, and for a century and a half drenched Europe in blood. The beginnings of the Scientific movement were confined to a minority among the intellectual elite.… [T]h…"