Almost any seat was comfortable at one-sixth of a gravity.

After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.

This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

The fact that we have not yet found the slightest evidence for life - much less intelligence - beyond this Earth does not surprise or disappoint me in the least. Our technology must still be laughably primitive, we may be like jungle savages listening for the throbbing of tom-toms while the ether around them carries more words per second than they could utter in a lifetime.

He found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could she establish contact with the real world.

Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference we should each be treated with appropriate respect.

Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of a ll Utopias - boredom.