"There they go, off to Mars, just for the ride, thinking that they will find a planet like a seer’s crystal, in which to read a miraculous future. What they’ll find, instead, is the somewhat shopworn image of themselves. Mars is a mirror, not a crystal." (Ray Bradbury," A Few Notes on The Martian Chronicles", 1950)
"Coming out of space was like coming out of the most beautiful cathedral they had ever seen." (Ray Bradbury, "The Fire Balloons", 1951)
"The Machine howled. Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them." (Ray Bradbury, "A Sound of Thunder", 1952)
"A book is a loaded gun in the house next door." (Ray Bradbury, "Fahrenheit 451", 1953)
"Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them, at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us." (Ray Bradbury, "Fahrenheit 451", 1953)
"The books say nothing! Nothing you can teach or believe. They’re about nonexistent people, figments of imagination, if they’re fiction. And if they’re nonfiction, it’s worse, one professor calling another an idiot, one philosopher screaming down another’s gullet." (Ray Bradbury, "Fahrenheit 451", 1953)
"They are so confident that they will run on forever. But they won’t run on. They don’t know that this is all one huge big blazing meteor that makes a pretty fire in space, but that some day it’ll have to hit." (Ray Bradbury, "Fahrenheit 451", 1953)
"We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against." (Ray Bradbury, "Fahrenheit 451", 1953)
"What traitors book can be! you think they’re backing you up, and they turn on you." (Ray Bradbury, "Fahrenheit 451", 1953)
"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." (Ray Bradbury, "Fahrenheit 451", 1953)
"The universe is full of matter and force. Yet in all that force, amongst all the bulks and gravities, the rains of cosmic light, the bombardment of energy - how little spirit, how small the decimal points of intelligence." (Ray Bradbury et al, "Mars and the Mind of Man", 1973)
"Life is a magic show or should be if people didn’t go to sleep on each other. Always leave folks with a bit of mystery." (Ray Bradbury, "Colonel Stonesteel’s Genuine Home-Made Truly Egyptian Mummy", 1981)
"That’s all science fiction was ever about. Hating the way things are, wanting to make things different." (Ray Bradbury, "No News, or, What Killed the Dog?", 1994)
"Do you know why teachers use me? Because I speak in tongues. I write metaphors. Every one of my stories is a metaphor you can remember. The great religions are all metaphor. We appreciate things like Daniel and the lion's den, and the Tower of Babel. People remember these metaphors because they are so vivid you can't get free of them and that's what kids like in school." (Ray Bradbury, The Paris Review, [interview] 2010)
"At base, science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle." (Ray Bradbury)
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