"They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay around them in the weeds."
- Kim Stanley Robinson
"The word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water. (Bistami) Pg. 128"
"The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage."
"You just don't have faith!" Frank repeated."Well I hope I never get it! It's like being hit by a hammer in the head!"
"We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends."
"You have a mind like the rings of Saturn. A million miles wide and an inch deep."
"Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement concepts, like in..."
"Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists."
"He pointed to another number, changing as rapidly as the first, but on a lower trajectory; it rose to a high of 8.79 rem per hour. Several lifetimes of dentists’ X-rays, to be sure; but the radiation ..."
"The rational reasons were all rationales for an underlying irrationality."