The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

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.

Getting information from the internet is like getting a glass of water from the Niagara Falls.

Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction.

They will have time enough, in those endless aeons, to attempt all things, and to gather all knowledge... no Gods imagined by our minds have ever possessed the powers they will command... But for all that, they may envy us, basking in the bright afterglow of Creation; for we knew the Universe when it was young.

The creation of wealth is certainly not to be despised, but in the long run the only human activities really worthwhile are the search for knowledge, and the creation of beauty. This is beyond argument, the only point of debate is which comes first.

. . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.