Can you sum up your ideas in less than—oh, a thousand bits?
But was even this the end? A few mystically inclined biologists went still further. They speculated, taking their cues from the beliefs of many religions, that mind would eventually free itself from m...
And if there was anything beyond that, its name could only be God.
They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of absolute omnipotence;
They could not eat it, and it could not eat them; therefore it was not important.
The thing’s hollow—it goes on forever—and—oh my God!—
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 person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion.
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...
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...
Otsusta minu üle mu tegude järgi, ehkki neid on vähe, mitte mu sõnade järgi, kuigi neid on palju.
No one worried except a few philosophers. The race was too intent upon savoring its new-found freedom to look beyond the pleasures of the present. Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been...
Miss Pringle was not much larger than the handheld personal assistants of his own age, and usually lived, like the Old West’s Colt 45, in a quick-draw holster at his waist.
In accordance with the terms of the Clarke-Asimov treaty, the second-bestscience writer dedicates this book to the second-best science-fiction
In Brohier’s eyes, violence was not merely the last refuge of the incompetent. It was the gloating revenge of the sore loser.
He might himself be putting on a superb act, following the performance by logic alone and with his own strange emotions completely untouched, as an anthropologist might take part in some primitive rit...
For relaxation he could always engage Hal in a large number of semimathematical games, including checkers, chess, and polyominoes. If Hal went all out, he could win any one of them; but that would be...
Everybody on this island has one ambition, which may be summed up very simply. It is to do something, however small it may be, better than anyone else. Of course, it’s an ideal we don’t all achieve. B...
The rash assertion that "God made man in His own image" is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths.
Yet if there were no hazards there would be no achievement, no sense of adventure.