Quotes

…and all the fond nothings of daily life should clothe themselves in elemental sparks and shoot with fiery speed in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye, from hemisphere to hemisphere…

— A Thread Across The Ocean

Conquerers live in dread of the day when they are shown to be, not superior, but simply lucky.

— The Stone Sky

If a religion is a system of human norms and values that is founded on belief in superhuman order, then Soviet Communism was no less a religion than Islam.

— Sapiens

Like a government diverting money from defence to education, humans diverted energy from biceps to neurons.

— Sapiens

So many ways to screw the pooch, and just one staggeringly complex, scrupulously modelled, endlessly rehearsed, indefatigably tested way to succeed.

—Hidden Figures

They sat there in the evening of the last day. And, though there was no actual point to it, they loved each other.

—The Best Of Richard Matheson

Photographs are photons on flypaper.

—The Ursa Major Moving Group

Language is imperfect; poetry, perfectly imperfect.

—Time Travel

And since we are speculating, we’ll use those powerful pseudo-laws, the Principles of Mediocrity and Minimal Assumption.

—A Fire Upon The Deep

Technology isn’t destiny, no matter how inexorable its evolution may seem.

—The Dream Machine

We are dead stars looking back up at the sky.

—Dr. Michelle Thaller

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The world spun the sun to the Center of the sky and then downward once more.

—Grass

The circle of life on Ceres was so small you could see the curve.

—Leviathan Wakes

The flower responded to the star.

—Helliconia Spring