Eon Quotes

“pellucid.”
― Greg Bear, Eon

“The asteroid was longer on the inside than it was on the outside. The seventh chamber went on forever.”
― Greg Bear, Eon

“Oh.”
― Greg Bear, Eon

“Once again, human history proved that the worst mistake possible in politics was underestimating one's opponents. Van”
― Greg Bear, Eon

“atavistic.”
― Greg Bear, Eon

“expert”
― Greg Bear, Eon

“been”
― Greg Bear, Eon

“Orson Hamill has called "the conservative sickness of the twentieth century." There”
― Greg Bear, Eon

“Thirteen hundred years, and people are still people," Heineman mused with an edge of bitterness. "Still squabbling." "True, and not entirely true," Olmy said. "In your day, many people were so severely handicapped by personality disorders or faulty thinking structures that they often acted against their own best interests. If they had clearly defined goals, they could not reason or even intuit the clear paths attain to those goals. Often adversaries had the same goals, even very similar belief systems, yet hated each other bitterly. Now, no human has the excuse of ignorance or mental malfunction, or even lack of ability. Incompetence is inexcusable, because it can be remedied.”
― Greg Bear, Eon

“After things settle down, we can all take our turn sticking our heads through the hole in the Sisyphus mural.”
― Greg Bear, Eon

“They were burying the past, or as much of it as they could part with.”
― Greg Bear, Eon

“If a truth is dangerous," he said, "then perhaps it is not true enough."   The”
― Greg Bear, Eon

“carrying Apples—anti-personnel lasers—”
― Greg Bear, Eon