Pandora's Star (Commonwealth Saga, #1)

by Peter F. Hamilton

Eventually this madness will stop and we can start to focus our resources towards genuine social growth instead of physical.’

Astronomy is history.’

‘What do you become; for is it not greatness and the nobility? What do any of us become between the twin times of stardust? It is the greatness out among the stars that burn now where I walk.’

‘It’s people who commit crimes, so that’s where you’ll find the motivation: people.’

‘What do we do?’ ‘Pray.’

‘Administrations change, power groupings do not.’