David Brin Quotes
One of life's joys was to have friends who gave you reality checks...who would call you on your crap before it rose so high you drowned in it.
The fundamental premise of sci-fi is not spaceships and lasers - it's that children can learn from the mistakes of their parents.
The health of an enlightened and progressive society is measured by how vibrant is its science fiction, since that is where true self-critique and appraisal and hope lie.
... science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments tell us about the universe, whether we like it or not.
We have earned our peace. It is, by now, more precious than honor, or even pity.
It was a strange trek — the sullen leading the apathetic, followed by the confused, all tailed by the inveterately amused.
Alex felt the words wash over him. He had the strange fantasy the things were seeking places within him to lay their young.
Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as ‘enlightenment.