Junz found revulsion growing strong within him. A planet full of people meant nothing against the dictates of economic necessity! - Isaac Asimov

We are gaining the knowledge; science is giving us that. Now we need wisdom as well.

There was a thin, reedy quaver in the air, that wavered raggedly up the scale. It hovered, dropped and caught itself, gained in body, and swooped into a booming crash that had the effect of a thunderous split in a veiling curtain.

Limmar Ponyets was completely a-lather when the call reached his receiver - which proves that the old bromide about telemessages and the bathtub holds true even in the dark, hard space of the Galactic Periphery.