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“I’ll be frank with you.” Leonard reflected that that was one of the least trust-inspiring phrases in the language.
Infinite Dreams (1978)
Any time somebody starts out a sentence with your name, Leonard thought, they’re trying to sell you something.
Infinite Dreams (1978)
“The problem with most people,” Samuel cut in, “isn’t that they don’t know a lot of things. Just that most of what they know is wrong.”
Infinite Dreams (1978)
A person who thinks he learns science from science fiction is like one who thinks he learns history from historical novels, and he deserves what he gets.
Infinite Dreams (1978)
“That’s an improvement?”
“Who can say? But that’s revolution: throw the old set of bastards out and install your own set. At least it’ll be different.”
Infinite Dreams (1978)
It was full of jargon, charts and the kind of vague mathematics that social scientists admire.
Infinite Dreams (1978)
Most aliens in science fiction aren’t truly alien, and that’s not because science fiction writers lack imagination, but because the purpose of an alien in a story is usually to provide a meaningful distortion of human nature.
Infinite Dreams (1978)
One class of crackpots felt that Harrison had betrayed humanity, giving conquering hordes of aliens a road map back to Earth. The details of what they would do to us, and why, provided an interesting refraction of the individual crackpot’s problems.
Infinite Dreams (1978)
YOU ARE VERY SUPERSTITIOUS. I HAVE FOUND THIS TO BE NOT UNCOMMON AMONG MATHEMATICIANS.
Infinite Dreams (1978)