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

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

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

Optimism expressed as conservation of delta V.

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

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.

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