13 quotes found
“Your lack of fear is based on your ignorance.”
“Intellectuals always make a fuss about nothing.”
“A woman should be like water, able to flow over and around anything.”
“In his mind, the city, as it awoke from its slumber, seemed to be built on quicksand. The stability was illusory.”
“Everyone likes to reminisce, but not one wants to listen, and everyone feels annoyed when someone else tells a story.”
“Everything you see before you is the result of poverty. But how are things any better in the wealthy countries? They protect their own environments, but then shift the heavily polluting industries ...”
“As a science fiction writer who began as a fan, I do not use my fiction as a disguised way to criticize the reality of the present. I feel that the greatest appeal of science fiction is the creatio...”
“Should could no longer feel grief. She was now like a Geiger counter that had been subjected to too much radiation, no longer capable of giving any reaction, noiselessly displaying a reading of zero.”
“From time to time, I would gaze up at the stars after a night shift and think that they looked like a glowing desert, and I myself was a poor child abandoned in the desert... I thought that life wa...”
“We extend our best wishes to you, inhabitants of another world.After reading the following message, you should have a basic understanding of civilization on Earth. By dint of long toil and creativi...”
“When they passed a maintenance site in the road bed, Einstein stopped next to a worker who was smashing stones and silently observed this boy with torn clothes and dirty face and hands. He asked yo...”
“Science and technology were the only keys to opening the door to the future, and people approached science with the faith and sincerity of elementary school students.”
“The explosive development of technology was analogous to the grown of cancer cells, and the results would be identical: the exhaustion of all sources of nourishment, the destruction of organs, and ...”
