Larry Niven Quotes

I love superconductors.

Faraday is, and must always remain, the father of that enlarged science of electromagnetism.

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.

I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor.

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.

I love video games. I'm also slightly in awe of them. I'm in awe of their power in terms of imagination, in terms of technology, in terms of concept. But I think, above all, I'm in awe at their power to motivate, to compel us, to transfix us, like really nothing else we've ever invented has quite done before.

I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.

You never know what's going to happen with television these days.

In order to achieve a true understanding of string theory, some new idea will be required, and most likely, some break with the concepts on which we've traditionally based physical theory.

My father has a great love of science, and he indoctrinated me into it early. I think I was 12 or so when we designed a moon base.

There's magic all around us: Our smartphones are magical, 3-D printers are magical. So I feel that as a magician, if I can pull off something that seems real and convincing enough that I can explain why it's happening and have people believe it, it really is fascinating. And funny.

Discoveries in physics are made when the time for making them is ripe, and not before.

Never bet against science!

Hopefully there will be a day when all comedy is all robots.

Physicists must feel they are in the most exciting field in the world. Their minds must be afire.

One shouldn't work on semiconductors, that is a filthy mess; who knows whether any semiconductors exist.

We live in a fun time with so many ways to express yourself, you would be crazy to be a comedian and not check them all out.

I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist. These are scientists who are making the future in their laboratories.

If it is love that makes the world go round, it is self-induction that makes electromagnetic waves go round the world.

Teaming up with the scientists, researchers and computer programmers at Intel to collaborate and co-develop new ways to communicate, create, inform and entertain is going to be amazing.

As we all know, blinking lights means science.

If you look at innovation, it doesn't just occur in the lab.

I really want to go into the future 500 years and be a quantum physicist. Not only would I get to see all the incredible inventions I know will be out there, but I'd be able to understand the science behind them!

[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.

At Epcot Center the Disney corporation has focused its attention on two things greatly in need of Disneyfication: the tedious future and the annoying whole wide world.