They are a highly individualistic people and still experience many frictions living in a centralized society. Despite several centuries of advanced c… - William Tenn

Whether or not the science fiction will eventually develop a Shakespeare, I would not dare to predict. But I do claim that it is a literature produced by our times as much as Shakespeare's was by his. And its unfortunate, frequent vulgarities can well be equated with the vulgarities and plebeian absurdities of much Elizabethan writing, both reflecting the primitive vitality of the mass audience that responded to them. It is, of course, in any age, only moribund fiction that is polished to a point of antisepsis, and that will, in losing touch with its audience, “lose the name of action.” This new medium has as yet lost neither.

Laws produce lawbreakers, Bernie, like hens produce eggs. Civilization has nothing to do with it.

Science, my forward-looking friend, is a complex of interlocking theories, all derived from observation.