One sample is poor statistics, my math prof used to say.
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...
History never repeats itself—but historical situations recur. As
Minkowski spacetime.
He felt confident that when he pulled open the drawer of that desk, he would find a Gideon Bible inside it….
The Ramans do everything in threes.
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.
Pero nadie pensaba que llegaría muy lejos, porque ni siquiera creo que fuera capaz de integrar e elevado a x.- ¿Es posible tal ignorancia? - preguntó alguien con asombro.- Puede que esté exagerando. D...
He was moving through a new order of creation, of which few men had ever dreamed. Beyond the realms of sea and land and air and space lay the realms of fire, which he alone had been privileged to glim...
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...
He’s a creature of today—not haunted by the past or fearful of the future!
Because each of us is the sum of all we have ever experienced.
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...
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...
Meteorites don’t fall on the Earth. They fall on the Sun and the Earth gets in the way. - John W. Campbell
Otsusta minu üle mu tegude järgi, ehkki neid on vähe, mitte mu sõnade järgi, kuigi neid on palju.
Reliability depended on redundancy and automatic checking, and human intervention was much more likely to do harm than good.
Somehow, he was not in the least surprised, nor was he alarmed. On the contrary, he felt a sense of calm expectation, such as he had once known when the space medics had tested him with hallucinogenic...
In Brohier’s eyes, violence was not merely the last refuge of the incompetent. It was the gloating revenge of the sore loser.
Jupiter's fly-by had been carried out with impeccable precision. Like a ball on a cosmic pool table, Discovery had bounced off the moving gravitational field of Jupiter, and had gained momentum from t...
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