The Science Fiction Collection Quotes

“Watkins was fond of saying that there are two kinds of equipment—the kind that fails bit by bit, and the kind that fails all at once.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Science Fiction Collection

“Advanced Chemistry, by Jack Huekels PROFESSOR CARBONIC was diligently at work in his spacious laboratory, analyzing, mixing and experimenting. He had been employed for more than fifteen years in the same pursuit of happiness,”
― Philip K. Dick, The Science Fiction Collection

“This is George Robertson,” I said. “Mortimer Snead told me there’d be somebody there to talk to me. Maybe Lefty.” “Snead?” the cartoon”
― Philip K. Dick, The Science Fiction Collection

“The Four-Faced Visitors of…Ezekiel, by Arthur Orton We are told from our Sunday”
― Philip K. Dick, The Science Fiction Collection

“tunelessly through closed teeth. I had a true wife but I left her ... oh, oh, oh. The jeep skidded to a halt”
― Philip K. Dick, The Science Fiction Collection

“Don’t let anybody kid you about the wheel, son; money was mankind’s first significant invention.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Science Fiction Collection

“No, it shouldn’t be hard to solve at all—provided you held your nose, silenced your conscience, and were willing to forget that there was such a thing as a moral code.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Science Fiction Collection

“You’re confusing technology with culture. You look at this and say, ‘What a great civilization man has built,’ when you really mean, ‘What a great technology mankind has developed.’ There’s all the difference in the world. Technology is of the mind and hands. Civilization is of the spirit—and spiritually we are still in the Dark Ages.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Science Fiction Collection

“The danger from the imaginative mind cannot be overestimated.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Science Fiction Collection

“Funny how you don’t think about other people until something hurts you.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Science Fiction Collection