Adams chuckled. The evenings are always nice. The Weather boys don’t let it rain until later on, when everyone’s asleep.
You humans are a lonely lot of folks. You never have known your fellow-man. You can’t know him because you haven’t the common touch of understanding that makes it possible to know him. You have friend...
You say a thing so often and so well that after a time everyone believes it. Even, finally, yourself.
University politics, declared Oop, doesn’t care about liberal traditions or any other kind of traditions.
They told me they were headed for a planet the name of which I had not heard before, and they talked among themselves, gaily and happily, but in such a way that I did not seem to be left out. From the...
If Man had taken a different path, might, he not, in time to come, have been as great as Dog?
For what need was there to go anywhere? It all was here. By simply twirling a dial one could talk face to face with anyone wished, could go, by sense, if not in body, anywhere one wished. Could attend...
And with the quietness came an abiding sense of peace that seemed to seep into the very fiber of one’s being. It was no synthetic thing—not as if someone had invoked a peace and peace then was allowed...
A man, he told himself, must belong to something, must have some loyalty and some identity.
Aimed not at military concentrations, but at total populations. He
With creation went responsibility and he was not equipped to assume more than the moral responsibility for the wrong that he had done, and moral responsibility, unless it might be coupled with the abi...
Well, said Winslowe, moving over to plant himself behind the wheel, it don’t matter much what any of us are, just so we get along with one another. If some of the nations would only take a lesson from...
There isn’t any room, said Joshua. You travel back along the line of time and you don’t find the past, but another world, another bracket of consciousness. The earth would be the same, you see, or alm...
Squatted beside the fire, with the warmth of it upon his face and hands, he felt a smug contentment that seemed strangely out of place--the contentment of a man who had reduced his needs to the strict...
It seems to be a social axiom that as misery and privation increase for the many, the few rise ever higher in luxury and comfort, feeding on the misery.
Your kind of politics is dead. They are dead because any tinhorn with a loud mouth and a brassy front could gain power by appeal to mob psychology. And you haven’t got mob psychology anymore. You can’...
That was how it started, Enoch thought, almost a hundred years ago. The campfire fantasy had turned into fact and the Earth now was on galactic charts, a way station for many different peoples traveli...
Money here on Earth is more than the paper or the metal that you use for money, more than the rows of figures that account for money. Here on Earth you have given money a symbolism such as no medium o...
Here, in this waiting room, one could see a cross section of them—the hoppers, the creepers, the crawlers, the wrigglers, and rollers that came from the many planets, from so many stars. Earth was the...
He tilted back his head and stared up at the sky and marveled once again, as he had marveled many other times on many other planets, at the sheer, devastating loneliness and alienness of unfamiliar st...