A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than on collective responsibility.

A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than on collective responsibility.

Authority. The antithesis of science.

The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future. Cut loose the past; it is dead weight. Let the Extirpation continue. Let it never end.

We seem to be young, in a very old Galaxy. We're like kids tiptoeing through a ruined mansion.

When you realize that you are an eternal being, you will laugh at things that used to give you anxiety attacks.

The Long Earth is bountiful but not forgiving.