Sci-Fi Wisdom of the Week

"...you're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view."

- Obi Wan Kenobi, Return of the Jedi (1983)

Sci-Fi Wisdom of the Week

"I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing him to grow. Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken."

-Duke Leto Atreides (Jurgen Prochnow), Dune (1984)

Sci-Fi Wisdom of the Week

"We adapt and we survive. The function of life is survival."

-Dr. David Kibner (Leonard Nimoy), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

Sci-Fi Wisdom of the Week

"One man's mundane and desperate existence is another man's Technicolor."

-- Strange Days (1995)

Sci-Fi Wisdom of the Week

"Ladies and gentlemen, attention! There is a herd of killer rabbits headed this way and we desperately need your help!"

-Night of the Lepus (1972)

Sci-Fi Wisdom of the Week: Aging Edition

"Time is the fire in which we burn..."
- Dr. Soran

"...Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived..."
-Captain Picard, Star Trek Generations (1994)

Sci-Fi Wisdom of the Week

"Remember, thifty thinkers are always underbudget."

-THX-1138 (1971)

Sci-Fi Wisdom of the Week

"All this has happened before, and it will all happen again."

- Walt Disney's Peter Pan (1953).

Sci-Fi Wisdom of the Week

"From Job's friends insisting that the good are rewarded and the wicked punished, to the scientists of the 1930's proving to their horror the theorem that not everything can be proved, we've sought to impose order on the universe. But we've discovered something very surprising. While order does exist in the universe, it is not at all what we had in mind."

- John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness (1987)

Sci-Fi Wisdom of the Week

"The United States is a non-smoking nation! No smoking, no drugs, no alcohol, no women -- unless you're married -- no foul language, no red meat!"

-Malloy, (Stacy Keach), John Carpenter's Escape from L.A. (1996)

Sci-Fi Wisdom of the Week

"Lady, nothing surprises me anymore. We fucked up the air, the water...we fucked up each other. Why don't we just finish the job by flushing our brains down the toilet?"

- Trent (Sam Neil), In The Mouth of Madness (1994)

Sci-Fi Wisdom of the Week

"God help us...we're in the hands of engineers."
Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum), Jurassic Park (1993)

Sci-Fi Wisdom of the Week

"This ship and her history will shortly become the care of another crew. To them and their posterity will we commit our future. They will continue the voyages we have begun, and journey to all the undiscovered countries, boldly going where no man... where no one has gone before."

-Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) passes the torch, in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

Sci-Fi Wisdom of the Week

"We take off into the cosmos, ready for anything -- solitude, hardship, exhaustion, death. We're proud of ourselves. But when you think about it, our enthusiasm's a sham. We don't want other worlds...we want mirrors. "

-- Solaris (2002)

Sci-Fi Wisdom of the Week

Freddy: "Are you saying we're dead?"

Paramedic: "Well, let's not jump to conclusions..."

Sci-Fi Wisdom of the Week

There are three basic types, Mr. Pizer: The Wills, the Won'ts, and the Can'ts. The Wills accomplish everything, the Won'ts oppose everything, and the Can'ts won't try anything.

-V.I.N.Cent (Roddy McDowall) in The Black Hole (1979)

Sci-Fi Wisdom of the Week

I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.

-Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), Fight Club (1999)

Sci-Fi Wisdom of the Week

"The line between science and mysticism...is just a line."

-Professor Victor Bergman (Barry Morse), Space:1999: "Black Sun"

Sci Fi Wisdom of the Week

"Well why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?"

-Nancy Bellicec (Veronica Cartwright) ponders an alien presence on Earth, from the 1978 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Sci-Fi Wisdom of the Week

"Do you know how Florentine women ensure their husbands come home? Every morning they slip him a slow poison, and every evening the antidote. That way, when the husband spends the night away, he has a very bad night."

-Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001)