The Last Question Quotes

“Have they been carrying out abductions and experiments on humans and animals?

“Emphatically No... Any species authorised to visit a planet must adhere to the six mandatory decrees imposed by the Guardians of Law and Natural Law: No contact, No impact, No interact, No extract, No transact, No artefact. To violate any of these prescripts is classed as an act of aggression against the Traits.”
― BH Mckechnie, The Last Question

“It takes three years to prepare a skystar-class craft for a mission, then a journey for a distance of over 42 light years to reach your planet. Do you think we would go to
all that trouble just to dissect a cow?
-Unknown Trait-”
― BH Mckechnie, The Last Question

“As that appalling ableist Paul Steinberg said in the nineteen thirties, ‘A city cannot operate to its full potential if it has to cater for a number of defective individuals'.”
― BH Mckechnie, The Last Question

“Everyone must realise that extraterrestrial beings will be truly different from humans in not only the way they look but in the way they think and will have different ambitions, feelings, demands, incentives, motivations, and therefore undoubtedly different intentions.

-Extract from “The Spaces between the Stars” by Sir Albert Jeffrey McIntyre published in 1954.-”
― BH Mckechnie, The Last Question