163 quotes
Would an alien outsider judge America’s performance by My Lai and Wounded Knee or by Lincoln and Jefferson?
The Sunborn (2005)
If you were damned certain you weren’t looking for something, there was a very good chance you wouldn’t see it.
Timescape (1980)
No matter how much you plan for it, the real thing seems curiously, well, unreal.
Timescape (1980)
Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced.
Foundation's Fear (1997)
Disintegration of structure equals information loss.
In the Ocean of Night (1977)
While a gigantic amount has been written or spoken, culture in the end is the fraction that gets remembered.
Beyond Infinity (2004)
To us, most human morality is carefully thought-through self-congratulation.
Beyond Infinity (2004)
Uncompromising zeal doesn’t look in the mirror much.
Beyond Infinity (2004)
History held counterexamples to any facile rule.
Beyond Infinity (2004)
Trouble comes looking for you if you’re a fool.
In Alien Flesh (1986)
“You know, my dear, you’re wrong that suffering ennobles people.” She’d stopped to massage her hip, wincing. “It simply makes one cross.”
In Alien Flesh (1986)
It was an example of what he thought of as the Law of Controversy: Passion was inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.
Timescape (1980)
Science is like literature, a continuing dialog among diverse and conflicting voices, no one ever wholly right or wholly wrong, but a steady conversation forever provisional and personal and living.
Timescape (1980)
After weeks of indoor work it actually felt good to be doing something—clean, direct, muscles and mind.
The Sunborn (2005)
They all lived as ants in the shadow of mountains of millennia, and time’s sheer mass shaded every word.
Beyond Infinity (2004)
Science is about continuity of ideas, a web of connections.
At least being prosperous set one apart in England; here it guaranteed nothing, not even taste.
Timescape (1980)
He whispered, “Honey, it’s good ol’ love makes the world go round.”
“Actually, it’s inertia.”
Cosm (1998)
Quantum uncertainty, chaos—these forever screen precise knowledge of the future from our eyes.
Beyond Infinity (2004)
The ship of theory could set sail on tides of mathematical grandeur and hope alone, but only data could fill its sails.
Cosm (1998)