Much blood has also been spilled on the carpet in attempts to distinguish between science fiction and fantasy. I have suggested an operational defini… - Arthur C. Clarke

...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 many people did it that it was no longer an obsession; it was a demographic.

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion

That requires as much power as a small radio transmitter — and rather similar skills to operate. For it's the application of the power, not its amount, that matters. How long do you think Hitler's career as a dictator of Germany would have lasted, if wherever he went a voice was talking quietly in his ear? Or if a steady musical note, loud enough to drown all other sounds and to prevent sleep, filled his brain night and day? Nothing brutal, you appreciate. Yet, in the final analysis, just as irresistible as a tritium bomb.