Common sense has very little to do with physics. - Michael Swanwick

I trust I have not grown so gullible as to consult a doctor," the bureaucrat said with dignity. "If I want medical attention, I hall employ the qualified machinery or, in extremis, a human with proper biomedical augmentation. But I will not swill down fermented swamp guzzle at the behest of some quasi-literate, uneducated charlatan.

It was the kind of discovery that shatters old universes and opens up new ones in their place.

We had ambition, and ascended into Hell.