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“Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, is the reverse.”
― The Martian Race
― The Martian Race
“Definitions, her grandmother once said, had to be like a fat man's belt - big enough to cover the subject but elastic enough to allow for change.
The Sunborn”
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The Sunborn”
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“In a tough situation, don't avoid acting just because it's easier or comfortable. Don't lapse into a passive state. People who give up, die.”
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“Cynic’ is a word invented by optimists to criticize realists.”
― In the Ocean of Night: Galactic Centre Book 1
― In the Ocean of Night: Galactic Centre Book 1
“It is one thing to speak of embracing the new, the fresh, the strange. It is another to feel that one is an insect, crawling across a page of the Encyclopedia Britannica, knowing only that something vast is passing by beneath, all without your sensing more than a yawning vacancy.”
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“Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. —MULLA NASRUDIN”
― Bowl of Heaven
― Bowl of Heaven
“Human life is a voyage on a sea of meaning, not a net of information.”
― Foundation's Fear
― Foundation's Fear
“the Law of Controversy: Passion was inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.”
― Timescape: A Novel
― Timescape: A Novel
“Certainty is the lot of those who do not ask questions.”
― Tides of Light
― Tides of Light
“If you think there is good in everybody, you haven’t met everybody.”
― Foundation's Fear
― Foundation's Fear
“every professor secretly thinks that what the world needs is a good, solid lecture--from him, of course.”
― Foundation's Fear
― Foundation's Fear
“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”
― The Martian Race
― The Martian Race
“Scientists study the world as it is; engineers create the world that has never been. —THEODORE VON KÁRMÁN”
― Shipstar
― Shipstar
“Around them small animals scampered along knotted cables and flaking vines, chirruping, squealing, venting yellow farts. Everywhere was animation, purpose, hurry. Momentum.”
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“Fame is the accumulation of misunderstandings around a well-known name”
― Foundation's Fear
― Foundation's Fear
“The universe of artifacts was a human one.”
― Timescape: A Novel
― Timescape: A Novel
“Yet how could the Empire possibly have kept itself stable, using such crude creatures as humans?”
― Foundation's Fear
― Foundation's Fear
“His ass knows more words than his mouth does.”
― Great Sky River
― Great Sky River
“...the movies are most people's exposure to ideas about the future.”
― The Martian Race
― The Martian Race
“Self-knowledge, she thought ruefully, is mostly bad news.”
― Shadows of Eternity
― Shadows of Eternity
“It is better to be wrong than to be vague. In trial and error, the error is the true essential. —FREEMAN DYSON”
― Shipstar
― Shipstar
“(He) had always thought that life's journey wasn't to get to your grave safely in a well-preserved body, but rather to tumble in, wrecked, shouting, What a ride!”
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