"Men started to geoform the earth in the middle of the twentieth century. Unfortunately, a lot of the early work was d…"

"CAROL: You don’t care for the music? JACQUE: Music! It’s just a gimmick to sell lutes and flutes."

"“We’re inferring from an absence of data,” Jacque said. “That’s lousy science.”"

"Most aliens in science fiction aren’t truly alien, and that’s not because science fiction writers lack imagination, b…"

"“That’s an improvement?” “Who can say? But that’s revolution: throw the old set of bastards out and install your own …"

"Any time somebody starts out a sentence with your name, Leonard thought, they’re trying to sell you something."

"“I’ll be frank with you.” Leonard reflected that that was one of the least trust-inspiring phrases in the language."

"It was full of jargon, charts and the kind of vague mathematics that social scientists admire."

"One class of crackpots felt that Harrison had betrayed humanity, giving conquering hordes of aliens a road map back t…"

"I never found anyone else and I don’t want anyone else. I don’t care whether you’re ninety years old or thirty. If I …"