163 quotes
Science’s success did not need a God to explain it; the world was enough.
Cosm (1998)
To believe anything so far-fetched, I’d have to see a solid calculation.
Cosm (1998)
Modern economics and the welfare state borrowed heavily on the future.
Timescape (1980)
When in enough doubt, let your subconscious work on the problem.
Cosm (1998)
Ideas about existence pale, beside the fact of existence.
Slow Symphonies of Mass and Time (1998)
Great error, seen up close, can look like true greatness.
Beyond Infinity (2004)
They will do anything for the worker, except become one.
Timescape (1980)
Just because something’s crazy, doesn’t mean it’s wrong.
Artifact (1985)
Her eyes flipped down through the usual scandal, gossip, and politics, noting that there didn’t seem to be much difference between them anymore.
Cosm (1998)
Manufacturing creates wealth, services distribute it.
The Man Who Sold The Stars (2013)
Thunder impresses, but it’s lightning does the work.
In Alien Flesh (1986)
Wars don’t determine who’s right, only who’s left.
Vortex (2016)
Women lurching around on heels they couldn’t manage (“sexy evening columns” as Frederick’s termed them)—further proof yet again that money can’t buy a clue.
Cosm (1998)
Propaganda of sufficient age became art.
Beyond Infinity (2004)
Must admit it felt good. First time in years anybody ever admitted I was right.
In Alien Flesh (1986)
Nothing could be sure it was itself the original. So the only intelligent course lay in enjoying whatever life a being felt—living like a mortal, in the moment.
In Alien Flesh (1986)
Anyway, the Shanna woman was abrasive, self-obsessed, smug—and those were her good points. Julia suspected that in a pinch the woman might also be careless, the one sin reality never forgave.
The Sunborn (2005)
Good food was like sex, one of life’s blessings, but they both lost their edge when talked about too much.
Beyond Infinity (2004)
Evolution was still at work, pruning the failures from the gene pool with unblinking patience.
Beyond Infinity (2004)
Organic forms are in the universe of things and also reside in the universe of essences. There we cannot go.
In the Ocean of Night (1977)