The industrial age had only just begun; the planet had reached its Best Before date.

Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.

Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.

You have many fine qualities that I admire. But you are out of time. You should have been born a century ago, when values such as yours meant something.

Scientific thought - indeed, any mode of thought, whether it be religious or philosophical or anything else - is just like the fashions that we wear - only much longer lived. It's a little like a boy band.

You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library. She pointed to the shelf opposite. Over there was Catch-22, which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a series, I believe.