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How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean. - in "Nature" [Nature] It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him. - [God] The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended. Here on the Equator, in the continent which would one day be known as Africa, the battle for existence had reached a new climax of ferocity, and the victor was not yet in sight. - 2001: A Space Odyssey [Books (First Lines)] Even in this metric age, it was still the thousand-foot telescope, not the three-hundred-meter one. - 2010: Odyssey Two [Books (First Lines)] Before she flew to the launch site, Helena Lyakhov always went through the same ritual. She was not the only cosmonaut who did so, though few ever talked about it. - Childhood's End (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Profiles of the Future (ch. 2) [Technology] Sooner or later, it was bound to happen. On June 30, 1908, Moscow escaped destruction by three hours and four thousand kilometers--a margin invisibly small by the standards of the universe. - Rendezvous with Rama (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] It had taken them many hours to fight their way out of the Cave of the White Worms. Even now, they could not be sure that some of the pallid monsters were not pursuing them--and the power of their weapons was almost exhausted. - The City and the Stars [Books (First Lines)] Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out. - The Nine Billion Names of God, a short story [Books (Last Lines)]
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