He had a suspicion of plausible answers; they were so often wrong.
Jan had always been a good pianist, and now he was the finest in the world.
The meteorites of 1908 and 1947 had struck uninhabited wilderness; but by the end of the twenty-first century there was no region left on Earth that could be safely used for celestial target practice.
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible
That requires as much power as a small radio transmitter--and rather similar skills to operate. For it's the application of the power, not its amount, that matters. How long do you think Hitler's care...
Just like the cosmonauts and their pee plants, all we have is each other.
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software.
Men knew better than they realized, when they placed the abode of the gods beyond the reach of gravity.
Training was one thing, reality another, and no one could be sure that the ancient human instincts of self-preservation would not take over in an emergency.
But it was in the art of the cartoon film, with its limitless possibilities, that New Athens had made its most successful experiments. The hundred years since the time of Disney had still left much un...
Michael O'Toole had no difficulty recognizing which questions in life should be answered by physics and which ones by religion.
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.
What is human memory?" Manning asked. He gazed at the air as he spoke, as if lecturing an invisible audience - as perhaps he was. "It certainly is not a passive recording mechanism, like a digital dis...
Imagine that every man’s mind is an island, surrounded by ocean. Each seems isolated, yet in reality all are linked by the bedrock from which they spring. If the ocean were to vanish, that would be th...
The Chairman glared across three hundred and eighty thousand kilometers of space at Conrad Taylor, who reluctantly subsided, like a volcano biding its time.
Slowly, Jimmy held up his outstretched hands. Men had been arguing for two hundred years about this gesture; would every creature, everywhere in the universe, interpret this as "See--no weapons"? But...
But most of the time, with a contented resignation that comes normally to a man only at the end of a long and busy life, he sat before the keyboard and filled the air with his beloved Bach.
That first Prime Monitor, he said, was sent by the Creator, from another dimension of the early universe, into our evolving space-time system.
Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference; we should each be treated with appropriate respect.
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.
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