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• Scientific theories are judged by the coherence they lend to our natural experience and the simplicity with which they do so.
  The grand principle of the heavens balances on the razor's edge of truth....
• Once a man has changed the relationship between himself and his environment, he cannot return to the blissful ignorance he left.
  Motion, of necessity, involves a change in perspective....
• Our ancestors harnessed the power of a sun, and so again shall we.
  -- Commissioner Pravin Lal, "The Science of Our Fathe...
• I think, and my thoughts cross the barrier into the synapses of the machine, just as the good doctor intended.
  But what I cannot shake, and what hints at things to come, is that thoughts cross back....
• Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason. -- Charles P. Curti
• Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason. -- Charles Curtis, "A Commonplace Book
• In the years since our arrival, we have foolishly disrupted so many of Planet's ecosystems that entire species may vanish without our ever having understood, or even known them.
  We must halt this plunder, and halt it immediately, for our own survival as a species depends on our ability to strike a balance on this world....
• I loved my chosen. How then to face the day when she left me?
  So I took from her body a single cell, perhaps to love her again....
• The Warrior's bland acronym, MMI, obscures the true horror of this monstrosity.
  Its inventors promise a new era of genius, but meanwhile unscrupulous power brokers use its forcible installation to violate the sanctity of unwilling human minds....