“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”
Source: Calculating God (2000), Chapter 14 (p. 137)
Robert James Sawyer, né le 29 avril 1960 à Ottawa en Ontario, est un écrivain de science-fiction canadien. Auteur de plus de vingt romans, il a publié de nombreuses nouvelles dans les magazines Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Amazing Stories, ou dans la revue Nature. Il est lauréat de plus de 40 prix littéraires, dont le prix Nebula du meilleur roman , le grand prix de l'Imaginaire , le prix Hugo du meilleur roman , et le prix John-Wood-Campbell Memorial . En 2013, il est récompensé pour l'ensemble de son œuvre par le prix Aurora du Lifetime Achievement . Wikipedia
“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”
Source: Calculating God (2000), Chapter 14 (p. 137)
“Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim.”
Source: Flashforward
“Still, you must know that the fear of death is irrational; death comes to everyone.”
Source: Calculating God (2000), Chapter 25 (p. 235)
“Free will is an illusion. It is synonymous with incomplete perception.”
Source: Flashforward (1999), Chapter 12 epigram (p. 123; quoting Walter Kubilius)
Source: Frameshift (1997), Chapter 41 (p. 326; apparently quoting George Bernard Shaw)
“Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed.”
Source: Calculating God (2000), Chapter 6 (p. 70)
“He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over.”
Source: Flashforward (1999), Chapter 1 epigram (p. 9; quoting Beilby Porteus)
“He cursed himself for thinking anything this complex would end up not being a source of problems.”
Source: Frameshift (1997), Chapter 26 (p. 184)
“You humans seem to have a profound capacity for ignoring obvious evidence.”
Source: Calculating God (2000), Chapter 2 (p. 23)
“…but there, because there is no grace of God, go I.”
Source: Frameshift (1997), Chapter 25 (p. 179)
“There may be oodles of possible humans, but it is a finite number.”
Source: Flashforward (1999), Chapter 16 (p. 167)
The Wreed wavered and vanished.
Source: Calculating God (2000), Chapter 32 (p. 309; ellipsis represents a minor elision of description)