Pandora's Star Quotes

“How you humans survive so much experience is something I shall never understand. To do so much and react to it all in the way you do is as much a curse as a blessing. You never take time to digest and appreciate what happens to you.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Pandora's Star

“I believe that intelligence and rationality will always be primary no matter what shape sentient creatures take. To not think that would be to doubt the value of life itself.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Pandora's Star

“Genuine scientific progress is a slow climb, which requires a stable society to support thinkers and theorists over many generations.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Pandora's Star

“Life's a bitch, then you rejuvenate and do it all over again.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Pandora's Star

“He never did understand why people admired or even collected art. The greatest human artist could never hope to match what nature did with a single flower.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Pandora's Star

“Wherever you find human misery, you find lawyers, either causing it or making a profit from it.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Pandora's Star

“The hostile force! The reasone the barrier was established. "Astrophysics, do we know what's causing that?"

"No, sir," Bruno said cheerfully. "Not a clue".”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Pandora's Star

“Civilization was a blessing you never truly appreciated until it threatened to collapse around you.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Pandora's Star

“Only people with one short life want to go tearing out into the great unknown with nothing more than a flashlight and a stick to poke the rattlers with.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Pandora's Star

“Chain of command was always a nominal concept in the division, you trusted people to do their job right.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Pandora's Star

“Three hundred and twenty-eight wormholes were opened in unison. They were small, all of them measuring a metre and a half wide. Just enough for a ten-megatonne warhead to pass through. The wormholes closed.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Pandora's Star

“he said that for wickedness to succeed all it takes is for decent people to do nothing.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Pandora's Star

“The original castle back in Edinburgh was the seat of Scottish nationalism. It symbolized everything to the diehard believers. Despite all the changes and defeats they endured, the castle stood solid at the center of their capital. They waited for generations for the Scottish nation to be properly reborn after their Bonnie Prince was lost. There were times when the cause seemed impossible, or even cursed; they regained their independence from the English only to lose it again right away with the formation of Federal Europe.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Pandora's Star

“That was the trouble with freethinkers, they had overactive imaginations that made them uncertain.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Pandora's Star

“The rocky constriction was at its narrowest, the pressure at its highest.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Pandora's Star

“On top of everything else, the locals’ idea of nightlife in the Last Pony was folk songs sung along to an out-of-tune piano, drinking enough ale to knock out a horse, and lighting their own farts. Two centuries ago he would have enjoyed that, joining in heartily as the games became more childish; but as he’d slowly discovered, despite rejuvenation, age was a truly cumulative thing, bringing a degree of wisdom to life.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Pandora's Star

“For now, we must reprogram the hyperdrive. There are a great many safety limiters to be removed.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Pandora's Star

“We exercised our democratic right to protest, and they ignored us.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Pandora's Star

“Pompous old farts need to have the piss taken out of them every now and then.” She put her hands together in Buddhist fashion, and crossed her eyes. “It puts them in touch with their Oneness.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Pandora's Star

“Ozzie would have loved to dive right in and give himself a decent clean, but even though they still hadn’t seen a single living creature on this world, he just couldn’t quite bring himself to trust the water. Too many late student nights with a pizza, a couple of six-packs, some grass, and a bad sci-fi DVD. God only knew what lurked along the bottom of the river, maybe nothing, but he certainly wasn’t going to wind up with alien eggs hatching out of his ass, thank you.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Pandora's Star

“A waiter from the café scowled at them from his seat just inside the doorway. When it was clear they weren’t going to go away, he sauntered over.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Pandora's Star

“He knew very little about running a case, and everything about watching over people’s shoulders.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Pandora's Star

“Machines served life, it could not be otherwise.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Pandora's Star

“Sara caught sight of them stumbling toward the tent together, and hurried over. “Are you all right?” “No he’s fucking not,” Ozzie barked at her. “You might have told me.” “It’s a hunt. What did you expect?” Ozzie’s anger spluttered out. She was right. What had I expected it to be like? Just another TSI spectacular?”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Pandora's Star

“To forgotten youth,” Patricia said, and raised her glass. “May we always be reminded by envying those who have it.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Pandora's Star

“Have you ever been rich, Detective?” “That’s Hoshe, and no, I’ve never been rich.” “They really don’t live by the same rules as anyone else. Whatever they want to do, they just do it. I”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Pandora's Star

“and they’re all analogue signals, which is even stranger.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Pandora's Star

“Does my willingness to do my duty make the human race a bunch of dangerous killers?”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Pandora's Star

“A huge quantity of sensor log files were stored in the RI array, almost all of them containing negative information.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Pandora's Star

“One of them is your ex-wife, and we know she didn’t do it.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Pandora's Star