"On the cover of the file was stenciled WILDFIRE, and underneath, an ominous note: THIS FILE IS CLASSIFIED TOP SECRET.…"

"For years it was stated that men had forty-eight chromosomes in their cells; there were pictures to prove it, and any…"

"As Stone was fond of saying, scientific research was much like prospecting: you went out and you hunted, armed with y…"

"He [Stone] often argued that human intelligence was more trouble than it was worth. It was more destructive than crea…"

"The biologist R. A. Janek has said that "increasing vision is increasingly expensive." He meant by this that any mach…"

"We Earth Men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things. The only reason we didn’t set up hot-dog stands in the …"

"Yes, their cities are good. They knew how to blend art into their living. It’s always been a thing apart for American…"

"They knew how to live with nature and get along with nature. They didn’t try too hard to be all men and no animal. Th…"

"…at base, science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of…"

"It was more possible that the human race possessed some spark of divinity that was worth cultivating than that a myst…"