Historically, both fear and public opinion were notoriously unconcerned about morality.
Ladies and gentlemen, those flames from the port engines are perfectly normal. The stewardess will be coming around in a moment to serve coffee, tea, or milk. I’m sorry we don’t have anything stronger on this flight – regulations don’t permit it.
He knew now that when power and ambition and curiosity were satisfied, there still were left the longings of the heart.
Often we had no choice: we couldn’t reform the whole world. And didn’t somebody once say ‘Politics is the art of the possible’?” “Quite true – which is why only second-rate minds go into it. Genius likes to challenge the impossible.
Afrikaans is one of the world’s best languages in which to curse; even when spoken politely, it can bruise innocent bystanders.
The origin of the universe might be forever unknown, but all that had happened after obeyed the laws of physics.
They could never guess that their minds were being probed, their bodies mapped, their reactions studied, their potentials evaluated.
It goes on forever and forever, and perhaps Something made it. But how you can believe that Something has a special interest in us and our miserable little world – that just beats me.
Whatever their origin, the human race was fortunate to have seen such a wonder; it could exist for only a brief moment of time in the history of the Solar System.
Think of such civilizations, far back in time against the fading afterglow of creation, masters of a universe so young that life as yet had come only to a handful of worlds. Theirs would have been a loneliness of gods looking out across infinity and finding none to share their thoughts.
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.