He had a suspicion of plausible answers; they were so often wrong.
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.
Jan had always been a good pianist, and now he was the finest in the world.
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software.
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.
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.
Men knew better than they realized, when they placed the abode of the gods beyond the reach of gravity.
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.
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.
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...
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...
I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.
The Chairman glared across three hundred and eighty thousand kilometers of space at Conrad Taylor, who reluctantly subsided, like a volcano biding its time.
Call it the Star Gate.
I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.
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...
Michael O'Toole had no difficulty recognizing which questions in life should be answered by physics and which ones by religion.
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...