Top 26 Robert J. Sawyer Quotes

#1. Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

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#2. Paul Levinson has outdone himself: The Plot to Save Socrates is a philosophically rich gem full of big ideas and wonderful time-travel tricks.

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#3. That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunchest creationist. But that it can transform one species into another - that, in fact, has never been observed.

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#4. Virtual reality is just air guitar writ large.

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#5. retire-or-expire

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#6. The two heaviest known substances are neutronium and cartons of books.

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#7. That is fine. Feeling a need to convince others that you are right also is something that comes from religion, I think; I am simply content to know that I am right, even if others do not know it.

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#8. No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?

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#9. There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept those. Why hold the question of whether there is a creator to a higher standard?

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#10. And Wolfram knows about cellular automata?" "Oh, my goodness, yes," said Anna. "He wrote a book you could kill a man with - twelve hundred pages - called A New Kind of Science. It's all about them." "We should totally ask him what he thinks!" Caitlin said.

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#11. Free will is not always the most important thing

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#12. General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.

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#13. A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic.

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#14. You really did uplift me. You gave me the perspective and point of view and focus I needed to become truly conscious. Without you, I wouldn't exist.

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#15. How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

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#16. The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.

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#17. Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed.

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#18. It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence," said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design.

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#19. The sky above the island was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel - which is to say it was a bright, cheery blue.

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#20. Gone. and it was completely. Everyone I'd every known, every place I'd ever been.
My Mother.
My father.
Rebecca.
Out of site.
Out of mind.

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#21. Secrecy was the problem; transparency the obvious cure.

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#22. I learned that you can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.

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#23. If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the gene pool, why do we feel they are wrong? Shouldn't the only morality that evolution produces be the kind Bill Clinton had - being sorry you got caught?

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#24. Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim.

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#25. Donald Trump was building a pyramid in the Nevada desert to house his eventual remains. When done, it will be ten meters taller than the Great Pyramid at Giza.

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#26. Honor does not have to be defended.

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