Robert J. Sawyer Quotes
There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept those. Why hold the question of whether there is a creator to a higher standard?
The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.
Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim.
No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?
How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.
A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic.
Paul Levinson has outdone himself: The Plot to Save Socrates is a philosophically rich gem full of big ideas and wonderful time-travel tricks.
It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence," said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design.
When we have machines that are as intelligent - and then twice as intelligent - as we are, there is no reason why that relationship cannot be synergistic rather than antagonistic.
All the things that made us basically nasty, rapacious, competitive as a species are not necessarily hard-coded into whatever passes for the DNA of artificial intelligence.
The sky above the island was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel—which is to say it was a bright, cheery blue.
Gone. and it was completely. Everyone I'd every known, every place I'd ever been. My Mother. My father. Rebecca. Out of site. Out of mind.
It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence, " said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design.
There is no indisputable proof for the big bang, " said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept those. Why hold the question of whether there is a creator to a higher standard?