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“There is never no hope left. Remember.”
Larry Niven
książka
The Ringworld Engineers
Źródło: The Ringworld Engineers (1980), p. 280
“Everything starts as somebody's daydream.”
As quoted in Reader's Digest Quotable Quotes : Wit and Wisdom for All Occasions from America's Most Popular Magazine (1997) by Reader's Digest Association, p. 27
“Think of it as evolution in action.”
Larry Niven
książka
Oath of Fealty
Oath of Fealty (1982) (co-written with Jerry Pournelle)
“The perversity of the universe tends towards a maximum. The universe is hostile.”
Źródło: Ringworld (1970), p. 142
Space.com interview (2000)
““Perhaps I was expecting too much.”
“Perhaps. We’re all waiting as fast as we can.””
Larry Niven
książka
The Mote in God's Eye
Źródło: The Mote in God's Eye (1974), Chapter 13 “Look Around You” (p. 107)
“He liked everything about the university except the students.”
Larry Niven
książka
The Mote in God's Eye
Źródło: The Mote in God's Eye (1974), Chapter 19 “Channel Two’s Popularity” (p. 162)
“Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn.”
Larry Niven
książka
The Ringworld Throne
The Ringworld Throne (1996)
““That’s impossible. Isn’t it? Carlos?”
Carlos’ mouth twisted. “Not if it’s being done.””
Larry Niven
książka
The Borderland of Sol
The Borderland of Sol (p. 160)
Short fiction, Tales of Known Space (1975)
Larry Niven
książka
The Mote in God's Eye
Źródło: The Mote in God's Eye (1974), Chapter 51 “After the Ball Is Over” (p. 491)
“Forget the infinities: Concentrate on detail.”
Larry Niven
książka
The Ringworld Engineers
Źródło: The Ringworld Engineers (1980), p. 68
“To witness titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal.”
Źródło: Ringworld (1970), p. 133
The Warriors (p. 142)
Short fiction, Tales of Known Space (1975)
“I sometimes wonder why the aristocracy isn’t extinct, the lot of you seem so stupid sometimes.”
Larry Niven
książka
The Mote in God's Eye
Źródło: The Mote in God's Eye (1974), Chapter 40 “Farewell” (p. 397)
Matt to Polly in Ch. 12 : The Slowboat
A Gift From Earth (1968)
“She waited for him to explain a universe in which there was so much injustice.”
Larry Niven
książka
The Mote in God's Eye
Źródło: The Mote in God's Eye (1974), Chapter 51 “After the Ball Is Over” (p. 486)
“Sometimes there’s no point in giving up.”
Larry Niven
książka
The Ringworld Engineers
Źródło: The Ringworld Engineers (1980), p. 282
“In a universe the size of ours almost anything that can happen, will.”
There Is a Tide (p. 201)
Short fiction, Tales of Known Space (1975)
“God was knocking, and he wanted in bad.”
Describing the sound inside a spacecraft propelled by nuclear explosions, in Footfall (1986)
Larry Niven
książka
The Mote in God's Eye
Źródło: The Mote in God's Eye (1974), Chapter 53 “The Djinn” (p. 516; spoken by a politician to a scientist)
“1) Writers who write for other writers should write letters.”
Niven's Laws, Niven's Laws For Writers
Źródło: A Gift From Earth (1968), Ch. 2 : The Sons Of Earth
“Peace isn’t a stable condition, not for us. Maybe not for anything that lives.”
The Warriors (p. 151)
Short fiction, Tales of Known Space (1975)
