It's possible that there is guiding intelligence in our universe. I don't see a lot of personal evidence for an interventionist-on-an-individual-basis-deity. I have friends who very much do believe in that. But I don't.

— Robert J. Sawyer

¨ Kayla replied, ´And we---or the p-zeds, at any rate---copy indiscriminately, without reflection. And if the person they're copying is a psychopath, then their behavior ends up being de facto psychopathic, too.´ ¨

— Robert J. Sawyer

Mr. Locker—my biology teacher—says if dinosaurs were magically brought forward in time today, we’d have nothing to worry about. Dogs, wolves, and bears would make short work of tyrannosaurs.” She nodded at Schrödinger, who was now padding across the floor in the opposite direction. “Big cats, too. They’re faster, tougher, and brighter than anything that existed seventy million years ago. Everything is always ramping up, always escalating.

— Robert J. Sawyer

Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim.

— Robert J. Sawyer

No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?

— Robert J. Sawyer

Not darkness, for that implies an understanding of light. Not silence, for that suggests a familiarity with sound. Not loneliness, for that requires knowledge of others. But still, faintly, so tenuous that if it were any less it wouldn’t exist at all: awareness. Nothing more than that. Just awareness—a vague, ethereal sense of being. Being. . . But not becoming. No marking of time, no past or future—only an endless, featureless now, and, just barely there in that boundless moment, inchoate and raw, the dawning of perception. . .

— Robert J. Sawyer

Regrettably, with '2001' having a title that had a year in it, science fiction essentially set itself up in the public's imagination as saying, 'Here's what you get if you wait to that year.' Well, we all waited till that year, and we didn't get anything at all like that.

— Robert J. Sawyer

Science fiction has always been a means for political comment. H.G. Wells' 'The War of the Worlds' wasn't about a Martian invasion - it was a critique of British colonialism, and... 'The Time Machine' is really an indictment of the British class system.

— Robert J. Sawyer

That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunchest creationist. But that it can transform one species into another — that, in fact, has never been observed.

— Robert J. Sawyer

There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollis. "And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept those. Why hold whether there is a creator to a higher standard?

— Robert J. Sawyer