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“They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay around them in the weeds.”
“Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.”
“You just don't have faith!" Frank repeated."Well I hope I never get it! It's like being hit by a hammer in the head!”
“It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.”
“They were so ignorant! Young men and women, educated very carefully to be apolitical, to be technicians who thought they disliked politics, making them putty in the hands of their rulers, just like...”
“The beauty of Mars exists in the human mind, he said in that dry factual tone, and everyone stared at him amazed. Without the human presence it is just a collection of atoms, no different than any ...”
“The intense thereness of it-haecceity Sax had called it once, when John had asked him something about his religious beliefs-I believe in haecceity, Sax had said, in thisness, in here-and-nowness, i...”
“He pointed to another number, changing as rapidly as the first, but on a lower trajectory; it rose to a high of 8.79 rem per hour. Several lifetimes of dentists X-rays, to be sure; but the radiatio...”
“So its democracy versus capitalism at this point, friends, and we out on this frontier outpost of the human world are perhaps better positioned than anyone else to see this and to fight this global...”
“That's a large part of what economics is - people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things. And then pretending that they haven't just made the numbe...”
