Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock.

You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening.

Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep the world for His people.

Journalism is the entertainment business.

Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.

Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.