prcardi

“Sheer dumb sentience.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, 2312

“Because the universe was full of ignorance all around and the scientist panned through it like a prospector crouched over a mountain stream, looking for the gold of knowledge among the gravel of unreason, the sand of uncertainty and the little whiskery eight-legged swimming things of superstition.”
― Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad

“[N]ot my name, my secret idea of myself.”
― Robert Charles Wilson, Darwinia

“Was that a sly smile of the initiate, or a dumb smile of bluffing?”
― Robert Silverberg, The Book of Skulls