Jane Goldman Quotes

'Who are we?' And to me that's the essential question that's always been in science fiction. A lot of science fiction stories are - at their very best - evocations of that question. When we look up at the night sky and wonder, 'Is there anyone else out there?' we're also asking who we are we in relation to them.

The genre of science fiction is a fun house, an amusement park ride, but it's also a problem. The question that's always being indirectly asked is this: 'Just who do we think we are and, further, who do we want to be?'

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

At times I think and at times I am.

Are we human because we gaze at the stars or do we gaze at the stars because we are human?

Sometimes I think, sometimes I am .

Who am I? If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then perhaps everything would amount to knowing whom I 'haunt.'

A long time ago, Descartes sad, “I think, therefore I am.” But if you are not thinking, what?

Philosophy, which formerly raised man to feel conscious of himself because he was a thinking being and to say, 'I think therefore I am," now raises him to say ... "I think, therefore I am not," (unless he takes thought into consideration only in that humble region where it is confused with action).

I like writing about what to me are like questions that I have about myself and the human condition. I find quantum physics fascinating, so I like to write about that, and I like things that make me laugh.

I think and that is all that I am.

If I had to summarize, most broadly, my concerns as a writer, I'd say the question 'How then must we live?' is at the heart of it, for me.

Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which produce existence? Hast thou examined thyself?

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

I describe myself as a human being.

I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

I like the big questions.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

Who are we? The answer to this question is not only one of the tasks but the task of science.

Know thyself.

I am, therefore I'll think.

I don't think anyone flies into space without some form of fundamental introspection about what life is about.