There was this superstitious fear on the part of the pygmies of the present for the relics of the giants of the past. - Isaac Asimov

I believe that scientific knowledge has fractal properties, that no matter how much we learn, whatever is left, however small it may seem, is just as infinitely complex as the whole was to start with. That, I think, is the secret of the Universe.

No man of real competence could have avoided a dash of uncertainty at a job like that.

Todo aquello era un gran aliciente en la vida de Harlan. Tenía alguien con quien hablar, alguien con quien podía discutir su vida, sus preocupaciones y sus pensamientos. Era como si ella fuese una parte de él mismo, pero una parte diferente, con la que necesitaba comunicarse hablando, en vez de pensar a solas.