“They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay around them in the weeds.”

“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!”

“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 ...”

“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.”

“Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.”

“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...”

“Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”

“Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.”

“Immer wieder behauptete Unwahrheiten werden nicht zu Wahrheiten, sondern, was schlimmer ist, zu Gewohnheiten.”