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Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction.
The Fountains of Paradise (1979)
Through long and bitter experience, Rajasinghe had learned never to trust first impressions, but also never to ignore them.
The Fountains of Paradise (1979)
Since women are better at producing babies, presumably Nature has given men some talent to compensate. But for the moment I can't think of it.
The Fountains of Paradise (1979)
I am unable to distinguish clearly between your religious ceremonies and apparently identical behavior at the sporting and cultural functions you have transmitted to me.
The Fountains of Paradise (1979)
Even though you were once a goddess, Kalidasa's heaven was only an illusion.
The Fountains of Paradise (1979)
There was no substitute for reality; one should be aware of imitations.
The Fountains of Paradise (1979)
One fail-safe after another had let them down. Helped by the ionospheric storm, the sheer perversity of inanimate things struck again.
The Fountains of Paradise (1979)
“I am the King.” Ah, but which king? The monarch who had stood on these granite flagstones — scarcely worn then, eighteen hundred years ago — was probably an able and intelligent man; but he failed to conceive that the time could ever come when he would fade into an anonymity as deep as that of his humblest subjects.
The Fountains of Paradise (1979)
Long ago, he had made that choice between work and life that can seldom be avoided at the highest levels of human endeavor ... Any fool could shuffle genes, and most did. But whether or not history gave him credit, few men could have achieved what he had done — and was about to do.
The Fountains of Paradise (1979)
Meanwhile, among all its countless other effects upon human culture, Starglider had brought to its climax a process that was already well under way. It had put an end to the billions of the words of pious gibberish with which apparently intelligent men had addled their minds for centuries.
The Fountains of Paradise (1979)