Evolution and science had come to the same answers; and the work of Nature had lasted longer. At.
And then there came a sound which Moon-Watcher could not possibly have identified, for it had never been heard before in the history of the world. It was the clank of metal upon stone.
There are some women who appear sincerely unaware of the fact that they cannot stop talking, and are most surprised when anyone accuses them of monopolising the conversation.
Pat’s knowledge of terrestrial history was vague; like most residents of the Moon, he tended to assume that nothing of great importance had ever happened.
Don’t blame me for what happened on Earth,” he said. “I’ve never been there, and I never will –.
Pure coincidence, of course, but a sensible man makes coincidences work for him.
I’d hate to do arithmetic, George thought to himself, in a system based on fourteen.
They no longer formed a single group, united in the common cause of survival. Now their lives had diverged again into a score of independent aims and ambitions. Humanity had swallowed them up once more, and the ocean swallows a raindrop.
The ladies were quite uninterested; either because they did not care for mathematics, or preferred to ignore birthdays.
The drought had lasted for 10 million years now, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended.
This implies, of course, the development of a really compact and light-weight method of storing or producing electricity, at least an order of magnitude better than our present clumsy batteries. Such an invention has been overdue for about fifty years;.
The thing’s hollow – it goes on forever – and – oh my God! – it’s full of stars!
A truly intelligent race is not likely to be unfriendly.
There is something very strange about a universe where a few dead butterflies can balance a billion-ton tower.
It seemed unfair that this should have happened in his time, after all these centuries of rest. But men cannot bargain with Fate, and choose peace or adventure as they wish.
And because, in all the galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than Mind, they encouraged its dawning everywhere.
Futilitarianism.
My colleagues and I, Dr. Floyd, will stake our reputations on this. TMA-1 has nothing to do with the Chinese. Indeed, it has nothing to do with the human race – for when it was buried, there were no humans. “You see, it is approximately three million years old. What you are now looking at is the first evidence of intelligent life beyond the Earth.
President of the Society for Creative Anachronisms.
News that is sufficiently bad somehow carries its own guarantee of truth. Only good reports need confirmation.