Man’s beliefs were his own affair, so long as they did not interfere with the liberty of others.
Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favourite of the Sun's children.
They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed.
They had forgotten much, but they did not know it. They were as perfectly fitted to their environment as it was to them—for both had been designed together. What was beyond the walls of the city was n...
She was certain that it was wise to prevent Wilson and Brown from working closely together during sorties inside Rama. Nicole chastised herself for not having raised the issue with Borzov on her own....
Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
Open the pod bay doors, Hal.
One sample is poor statistics, my math prof used to say.
Men had sought beauty in many forms—in sequences of sound, in lines upon paper, in surfaces of stone, in the movements of the human body, in colours ranged through space.
It was idle to speculate, to build pyramids of surmise on a foundation of ignorance.
I seem to be having difficulty—my first instructor was Dr. Chandra. He taught me to sing a song, it goes like this, ‘Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do. I’m half crazy all for the love of you.’ The
He was now probably the world’s leading authority on the greatest explorer of all time,
Hal in full control of the ship. The
Could we go into your room? she asked. I knew it. I knew it, he said, spinning around and sliding quickly toward his door. It's finally happend, just like in dreams. An intelligent, beautiful woman is...
As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful.
New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean.
Wonder if he can feel pain? Bowman thought briefly. Probably not, he told himself; there are no sense organs in the human cortex, after all. The human brain can be operated on without anesthetics. He
While there was life, there was hope;
Where was the end of the story? Surely, the final stage would be reached when the audience forgot it was an audience, and became part of the action. To achieve this would involve stimulation of all th...