James S.A. Corey Quotes

You're the predator right up until you're prey.

Optimism expressed as conservation of delta V.

Stars are better off without us.

The problem with living with miracles was that they made everything seem plausible.

No monkey ever reheated a frozen burrito.

Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas.

Science had given mankind many gifts, and she valued it. But the one important thing it had taken away was the value of subjective, personal experience. That had been replaced with the idea that only measurable and testable concepts had value. But humans didn't work that way.

And ... and what is civilisation if it isn't people talking to each other over a goddamned beer?

If life transcends death, then I will seek for you there. If not, then there too.

No rest for the wicked, no peace for the good.

There's a right thing to do," Holden said. "You don't have a right thing, friend," Miller said. "You've got a whole plateful of maybe a little less wrong.

Theological anthropology is a lot simpler when humans are the only ones with souls.

No one can blather on like a holy man with a trapped audience. Well, maybe a politician.

Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. It's attractive because it's simple, it's direct, it's almost always available as an option. When you can't think of a good rebuttal for your opponent's argument, you can always punch them in the face.

Too many dots," Miller said. "Not enough lines.