The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.
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Oh, death in space was most humorous.
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There were only the great diamonds and sapphires and emerald mists and velvet inks of space, with God's voice mingling among the crystal fires.
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Sleeping beauty awoke at the kiss of a scientist and expired at the fatal puncture of his syringe.
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...We lost our faith and went around wondering what life was for. If art was no more than a frustrated out-flinging of desire, if religion was no more...
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The entire history of mankind is problem solving, or science fiction swallowing ideas, digesting them, and excreting formulas for survival. You can't ...
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We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one....
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The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.
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They blended religion and art and science because, at base, science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an ...
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We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian - I tell you to become Martians. And we've gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civiliz...
