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I thought this couldn't happen in astronomy. Isn't celestial mechanics supposed to be an exact science? So we poor backward biologists were always being told.

They'd all been carefully screened by the F.B.I., so probably not more than half a dozen were active members of the Communist Party.

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.

President of the Society for Creative Anachronisms.

Well, that's a relief. You know that I have the greatest possible enthusiasm for this mission." "I'm sure of it. Now please let me have

All we want from Thalassa is a hundred thousand tons of water. Or, to be more specific, ice.

With no further clues, it might take the station Computer quite a while—perhaps as much as ten minutes—to locate the line in the whole body of English literature.

Oh, yes, safe for humans. Animals too. But there is an exclusion zone.

This is as bad as the Pandora party! It's nothing less than interstellar xenophobia!

Nicole looked around her. "Darkness everywhere," she said, almost to herself. "And somewhere in that darkness—if the word 'somewhere' even has any meaning—there was energy.

about twenty percent of the Lassans caught some kind of virus.

Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias—boredom. Perhaps

Some women, Commander Norton had decided long ago, should not be allowed aboard ship; weightlessness did things to their breasts that were too damn distracting

It was a kind of basso-profundo flutter in which each individual vibration could be heard. And the modulation was itself modulated; it rose and fell, rose and fell, with a period of about five seconds.

Let us say that you might have become a telepathic cancer, a malignant mentality which in its inevitable dissolution would have poisoned other and greater minds.

Good morning, Dr. Chandra. This is Hal. I am ready for my first lesson." There

One of the benefits of Dr. Kreuger's eminence was an unlimited computer budget:

I believe that Rama is a cosmic Ark, sent here to save—those who are worthy of salvation.

It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.

Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.

Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a brace of grouse, with something a little choice in white wines. Watson, you have never yet recognized my merits as a housekeeper. ~ Sherlock Holmes

To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.

I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule.