Life is full of situations cut short, unfinished observations, everything that doesn’t fit in the parameters of a story that would make sense to stra… - Dmitri Bilenkin

I’m sure that the fantastic descriptions of interstellar travel in the science fiction of the last century made many a heart skip a beat. I really don’t want my account to be a wet blanket, but the truth is the truth: there is nothing duller than space flight.

I'm not saying that you don't exist. You exist falsely.
"But I'm flying!"
"That's the point. A man can't fly on his own. That would be a miracle. People with little grounding in physics are apt to believe anything, but we know that there is no place for miracles in nature."

The professor was lost in thought. He was disturbed and worried, but proud that he was behaving like a true scientist: he wasn’t losing his head, or panicking, or believing in miracles.