Here was a revelation which no one could doubt or deny; here, seen by unknown magic of Overlord science, were the true beginnings of all the world's great faiths. Most of them were noble and inspiring...
Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological
At some signal, floodlights around the lip of the crater were switched on, and the bright earthlight was obliterated by a far more brilliant glare. In the lunar vacuum the beams were, of course, compl...
One sample is poor statistics, my math prof used to say.
Now that so many of its psychological problems had been removed, humanity was far saner and less irrational. And what earlier ages would have called vice was now no more than eccentricity—or, at the w...
Now I understand, said the last man.
Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence.
Minkowski spacetime.
I am a HAL Nine Thousand computer Production Number 3. I became operational at the Hal Plant in Urbana, Illinois, on January 12, 1997.
He felt confident that when he pulled open the drawer of that desk, he would find a Gideon Bible inside it….
Because each of us is the sum of all we have ever experienced.
Anything that had happened once on Earth should be expected millions of times elsewhere in the Universe; that was almost an article of faith among scientists.
After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.
A hundred failures would not matter, when one single success could change the destiny of the world.
Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.
Yet there was also something slightly spooky about them. Norton could never understand how men with advanced scientific and technical training could possibly believe some of the things he had heard Co...
When beauty is universal, it loses its power to move the heart, and only its absence can produce any emotional effect.
There was no objection when he said: I’m going after it. Nor did he expect there to be; his life was now his own, to do with as he pleased. He
The rise of science, which with monotonous regularity refuted the cosmologies of the prophets and produced miracles which they could never match, eventually destroyed all these faiths. It did not dest...
The dismantling of the vast and wholly parasitic armaments industry had given an unprecedented—sometimes, indeed, unhealthy—boost to the world economy. No longer were vital raw materials and brilliant...