Isaac Long

“One’s first existence was a precious gift which would never be repeated.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars

“and no one had so far been able to offer any scientific conclusions more compelling than Hmm. Weird. Saving”
― James S.A. Corey, Caliban's War

“The lights shifted into and out of his field of view. He wondered if that was what it would be like to look at stars. He’d never looked up at a sky. The thought inspired a certain vertigo. A sense of terror of the infinite that was almost pleasant. “There”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

“Evolution and science had come to the same answers; and the work of Nature had lasted longer. At”
― Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars