Cheryll Marmas

“Raping a planet involves considerable expense. Enormous blasters and slicers and sluicers and refiners are required to reduce a world back almost to a state of primal chaos, and then to extract from it its essential (i.e., commercially viable) ingredients. The history books may tell you of strip-mining on the mother planet, back in ancient times. Well, the crude processes employed then were similar in emphasis and results, but the operations were considerably smaller in size.”
― Roger Zelazny, The Doors Of His Face, The Lamps Of His Mouth

“The universe does not work by our rules”
― Frank Herbert, Destination: Void

“Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief.”
― Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination

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