Robert J. Sawyer Quotes

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• The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.
• Honor does not have to be defended.
• You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.
• Secrecy was the problem; transparency the obvious cure.
• That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunchest creationist. But that it can transform one…
• Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed.
• General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.
• How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied…
• With billions of years, who knows what science might make possible? Why, it might even make it possible for an intelligence, or data patterns representing…
• Since ancient times, the philosophers' secret has always been this: we know that God does not exist, or, at least, if he does, he's utterly…
• A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic.
• Do you think it's possible that things that seem to be discrete in three dimensions might all be part of the same bigger object in…
• Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim.
• Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.
• It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence," said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design.
• No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?
• There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept those. Why hold the…
• If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the…

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