Starplex Quotes

“To use the human metaphor, it would be like trying to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps. It can’t be done.”
― Robert J. Sawyer, Starplex

“It is the difference: we generalize do not. Specific bad humans did specific bad things; those humans do we not like. But the rest of humanity we judge one by one.”
― Robert J. Sawyer, Starplex

“By your time, life had been evolving on Earth for four billion years. But there are Earth-descended life-forms in this time that are products of fourteen billion years of evolution. You’ll never believe what daisies evolved into—or sea anemones, or the bacteria that caused whooping cough. In fact, I had lunch a few days ago with someone who evolved from whooping-cough bacteria.”
― Robert J. Sawyer, Starplex

“La Belle Aurore. The Germans wore gray; she wore blue.”
― Robert J. Sawyer, Starplex