163 quotes
“It was just good luck, last minute luck.”
“Your ‘luck’ was mostly sweat and intuition.”
The Martian Race (1999)
“I’ll be thinking of you as they roll me into a grave marked ‘Nobody Special.’”
Cosm (1998)
Whole world is sitting on ass, watching glorious Twenty-first century on TV.
The Martian Race (1999)
Science was a systematic way to avoid fooling yourself, after all.
The Martian Race (1999)
Today’s music has all the variety of a jackhammer.
The Sigma Structure Symphony (2012)
An animal that liked abstractions? Maybe that wasn’t all that bad a definition of being human.
Beyond Infinity (2004)
Man doesn’t have to take a gamble just ’cause it’s there. You got to learn that.
Against Infinity (1983)
That’s how business works. There’s always somebody coming in on your blind side.
The Martian Race (1999)
The intellectual breeds of humans think in terms of abstractions. But most people have emotions and think they are having ideas.
Beyond Infinity (2004)
That’s absurd. This is real life, not some tabloid fantasy.
The Martian Race (1999)
Maybe is not a theory, you know, it is merely maybe.
Artifact (1985)
Nature’s nature was change. It was not a museum.
Beyond Infinity (2004)
“The peers just fill the air with their speeches.”
“And from what I've seen, vice versa.”
Timescape (1980)
Nobody out here was going to find an alternative here to Earth’s tiresome clash of selfish individualisms and stifling collectivisms.
The Sunborn (2005)
“There’s plenty—”
“Plenty is exactly what there’s none of.”
Against Infinity (1983)
Government doesn’t often move quickly, but when they do, it’s like an elephant stampede.
Cosm (1998)
Thing about crazies is, they’re crazy. You can’t even understand them in retrospect.
Cosm (1998)
Puzzled frowns in the audience. Science reporters they might be, but high school chemistry was going a bit too deep for most.
The Sunborn (2005)
A damned big clue, but pointing at what? When in doubt, get some numbers.
Cosm (1998)
Better be a bit more diplomatic. Translation: cover your scientific ass.
The Sunborn (2005)