The most advanced machinery means nothing without skilled operators.

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

科幻小说是思想的文学，而思想才是最重要的。

The writer cannot be a mere storyteller; he cannot be a mere teacher; he cannot be a mere entertainer. He must be all of these and more.

If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus--more specifically peer consensus, the kind of consensus that matters to adolescents or to many among the intelligentsia.