Meaningful Quotes from Speculative Fiction
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Fuzzy Necromancer
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Re: Meaningful Quotes from Speculative Fiction
"Things that look like things often look more like things than things." Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
"Believe me, there’s nothing so terrible that someone won’t support it."
— Un Lun Dun, China Mieville
— Un Lun Dun, China Mieville
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Re: Meaningful Quotes from Speculative Fiction
"I have to ask you the same question people back home are asking about space these days. Is it worth it? Should we just pull back? Forget the whole thing as a bad idea, and take care of our own problems at home?"
"No. We have to stay here. And there's a simple reason why. Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics, and you'll get ten different answers. But there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe, and Lao-Tzu, and Einstein, and Morobuto, and Buddy Holly, and Aristophanes, and all of this... all of this... was for nothing. Unless we go to the stars."
- Jeffrey Sinclair, Babylon 5
"No. We have to stay here. And there's a simple reason why. Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics, and you'll get ten different answers. But there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe, and Lao-Tzu, and Einstein, and Morobuto, and Buddy Holly, and Aristophanes, and all of this... all of this... was for nothing. Unless we go to the stars."
- Jeffrey Sinclair, Babylon 5
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Re: Meaningful Quotes from Speculative Fiction
Ah, I love Commander Sinclair.
"A culture's teachings - and more importantly, the nature of its people - achieve definition in conflict. They find themselves, or find themselves lacking."
— Kreia, Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords
— Kreia, Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords
Re: Meaningful Quotes from Speculative Fiction
"Not Yet."
Baron von Muchausen
"Any famous last words?"
"Not yet."
"Is that famous?"
Baron von Muchausen
"Any famous last words?"
"Not yet."
"Is that famous?"
