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Brother to Dragons
Charles SheffieldFamous Charles Sheffield Quotes
“It sounds reasonable to me. Reasonable, but not true. Big difference.”
Source: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Proteus In The Underworld (1995), Chapter 19 (p. 251)
Source: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Proteus In The Underworld (1995), Chapter 17 (p. 227)
“Sometimes wealth and power merely created the desire for more of the same.”
Source: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Proteus In The Underworld (1995), Chapter 16 (p. 217)
Source: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Proteus In The Underworld (1995), Chapter 14 (p. 190)
Source: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Proteus In The Underworld (1995), Chapter 11 (pp. 148-149)
Charles Sheffield Quotes about thinking
Source: The Heritage Universe, Resurgence (2002), Chapter 8, “Theories, Theories, Theories” (p. 84)
Source: The Heritage Universe, Convergence (1997), Chapter 6 (p. 317)
Source: The Heritage Universe, Summertide (1990), Chapter 5, “Summertide Minus Thirty” (p. 61)
“And now I think about it, I never really wanted to live forever. I just want to live well.”
Source: Between the Strokes of Night (1985), Chapter 29 (p. 342)
Charles Sheffield Quotes about the trip
Source: The Heritage Universe, Resurgence (2002), Chapter 16, “And Then There Were None” (p. 187)
Source: The Heritage Universe, Convergence (1997), Chapter 13 (p. 381)
“Be an optimist! It’s the only way to live.”
Source: The Heritage Universe, Summertide (1990), Chapter 13, “Summertide Minus Ten” (p. 151)
Charles Sheffield Quotes
“That’s a whole lot of ifs you got there.”
“True. But which would you prefer, Louis Nenda?” Atvar H’sial rose from her crouched position. “A substantial set of contingent possibilities, or a single unpleasant certainty?”
Source: The Heritage Universe, Resurgence (2002), Chapter 32, “Escape Clause” (p. 385)
“You crazy? You’ve got me confused with a guy who cares about other people.”
Source: The Heritage Universe, Resurgence (2002), Chapter 30, “Stripping the Ship” (p. 368)
Source: The Heritage Universe, Resurgence (2002), Chapter 20, “Tally on Down” (p. 246)
“Idle wishing for circumstances different from what you had was a waste of time.”
Source: The Heritage Universe, Resurgence (2002), Chapter 20, “Tally on Down” (p. 245)
“I do not like to concatenate implausibilities.”
Source: The Heritage Universe, Resurgence (2002), Chapter 16, “And Then There Were None” (p. 188)
“When you have something to do, do it. When you have nothing to do, sleep.”
Source: The Heritage Universe, Resurgence (2002), Chapter 4, “Sleepless in Miranda Port” (p. 33)
“Nothing in life produce a more powerful joy than a near miss by the Angel of Death.”
Source: The Heritage Universe, Convergence (1997), Chapter 26 (p. 516)
“When a person was so consistently wrong, it was time to give up having opinions.”
Source: The Heritage Universe, Convergence (1997), Chapter 23 (p. 488)
“One form of insanity bears the name curiosity.”
Source: The Heritage Universe, Convergence (1997), Chapter 18 (p. 433)
“Science wasn’t a show-business talent, conducted in large halls and decided by audience applause.”
Source: The Heritage Universe, Convergence (1997), Chapter 6 (p. 321)
“What I found was worse than diversity—it was insanity.”
Source: The Heritage Universe, Transcendence (1992), Chapter 17 (p. 188)
“But no one, no matter how intelligent, could make good inferences from bad data.”
Source: The Heritage Universe, Transcendence (1992), Chapter 11 (p. 126)
“If you win too easy, better ask what’s going on that you don’t know about.”
Source: The Heritage Universe, Transcendence (1992), Chapter 11 (p. 125)
“Old habits did not just die hard. They refused to die at all.”
Source: The Heritage Universe, Transcendence (1992), Chapter 7, “The Torvil Anfract” (p. 70)
“Don’t confuse caution with cowardice.”
Source: The Heritage Universe, Divergence (1991), Chapter 22 (p. 495)
“Impossible gadgets are always the most valuable.”
Source: The Heritage Universe, Divergence (1991), Chapter 16 (p. 433)
“No purpose is served by making private suffering into a public event.”
Source: The Heritage Universe, Summertide (1990), Chapter 23 (p. 254)
Source: The Heritage Universe, Summertide (1990), Chapter 13, “Summertide Minus Ten” (p. 151)
“That’s what logic says. But I say, phooey, who wants logic? Not you, and not me. We want results.”
Source: The Heritage Universe, Summertide (1990), Chapter 13, “Summertide Minus Ten” (p. 150)
“The partners were there; gravity was calling the changes, and the cosmic dance was ready to begin.”
Source: The Heritage Universe, Summertide (1990), Chapter 11, “Summertide Minus Thirteen” (p. 127)
“Everyone was polite; no one was happy.”
Source: The Heritage Universe, Summertide (1990), Chapter 11, “Summertide Minus Thirteen” (p. 126)
“Mathematics is universal. But very little else is.”
Source: The Heritage Universe, Summertide (1990), Chapter 10, “Summertide Minus Eighteen” (p. 119)
“But mere plausibility did not make the statement true.”
Source: The Heritage Universe, Summertide (1990), Chapter 6, “Summertide Minus Twenty-Nine” (p. 65)
Source: Between the Strokes of Night (1985), Chapter 28 (p. 322)
“To a political mind, everything is politics.”
Source: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Proteus In The Underworld (1995), Chapter 3 (p. 23)
Source: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Proteus In The Underworld (1995), Chapter 2 (p. 11)
“War was senseless. And yet war came creeping steadily closer.”
Source: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Proteus Unbound (1989), Chapter 14 (p. 330)
“It’s the usual sensation mongering; the news services will say anything for an effect.”
Source: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Sight of Proteus (1978), Chapter 9 (p. 73)
