Quotes from Douglas E. Richards

Boyd thought about this. "No, because my eyes would be smashed down on the 2D surface. So I'd only see a convex line, or maybe a straight one.

Robert Sawyer, James Gunn, Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, David Brin, Joe Haldeman, Ben Bova, and Alan Dean Foster.

They were a reshuffling of the genetic deck never seen on Earth.

To a 2D being, there is no up and down, just side to side. No matter how hard they try, they can't pry their eyes or bodies from the page.

We'll wait until he crouches down to bind us,

Reed shook his head. "Pretty damned clever," he added, unable to keep admiration from his tone.

Patton said: Pressure makes diamonds.

terrified me to realize just how easy it was for mass delusion to overtake large swaths of humanity. That just below the surface of human kindness was a seething pool of unfathomable ruthlessness and cruelty, unequaled in the animal kingdom.

Isaac Asimov, the science fiction writer. Have any of you ever read the short story The Last Answer?

Otto Richter scribbled equations into a notebook at a furious pace, as if he were possessed by a berserker demon. He was in hot pursuit of a sudden inspiration—that superfluidity could be used to model exotic matter, which in turn could lead

Was I the only person in the world clueless enough to have always thought that AD meant After Death,

We hang the petty thieves. The master thieves we appoint to public office." —Aesop "Any

the goal was a mental flash, achieved somewhere below consciousness. In these ideal instants one did not strain toward an answer as much as relax toward it." —Richard Feynman (Nobel Laureate, Physics) "Once the future is foretold, that future becomes a living thing and it will fight very hard to bring itself about." —Stephanie Garber

His foot was heavy on the gas pedal by nature, and when he didn't actively control himself, his default speed was usually twenty miles per hour over the posted limit. Despite conscious efforts to contain this impulse, he was beginning to feel he was beyond hope and desperately in need of a twelve-step speedaholics program.

We've conditioned the public to believe women are only making a fraction of what men make for so long now, they'll believe the lie before they believe the correction. This claim has been around for so long it's created its own fucking reality.

Confirmation bias. This is our tendency to seek out information that supports and reinforces our beliefs, and ignore or discount any information that is contrary to them. So we stick to our guns, even against overwhelming evidence that we're wrong.

I don't know what weapons will be used to fight World War III.

There are two portals from Earth leading to worlds on which humanity has gone extinct. We propose that we gradually relocate ourselves to one of these worlds. To a pristine, unspoiled planet, with unlimited natural resources that have never been tapped. For ease of discussion, we'll call this planet Haven.

Absolutely. Dash and Dash have become the best of friends with himselves.

It was so easy to get mired down in the day-to-day struggles of life, and lose sight of the wonders of existence. How often did most people take just a few minutes to go outside at night and gaze skyward, to marvel at the tiny piece of the cosmos viewable from Earth? To contemplate the infinity of the universe and the complexity and brilliance of Nature in all its endless forms?

bright lights," he said. "I'm afraid we're a disappointment compared to Hollywood's

gruppenfuhrer, the equivalent of a major general,

And social media makes this worse, doesn't it?" said Paige. "Much worse. Because it provides a bubble, an echo chamber. And it provides distance and anonymity, so people can be as vicious as they want, and never have to look their opponent in the eye. They never see them as loving parents or thoughtful neighbors, just as unseen members of a nebulous other.

When you're moving at the speed of light through space, you stop moving through time. It stops completely. It turns out that your speed through space, combined with your speed through time, always adds up to the speed of light.