“No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world.” — Barney Oliver Quote

“No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world.”

“Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.”

“Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.”

“If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be.”

“In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.”

“The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light.”

“It seems to me that 'women's writing' by nature would not seek equivalence in the male world. It would be a writing that sought to express a distinction, not deny it.”

“Performers only get to do their showing off because the public pay to see them. To deny your audience a photo, whatever the format, seems a little rude to me.”

“Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!”

“I've had many friends over the years who have been in same-sex relationships, and the family denies hospital visitations when one is sick. Or when the estate is settled and people who have built a life together has everything taken away from them either by the families or the taxman.”

“If we deny our culture and become nothing and everything, that weakens us.”

“The problem with generalizations and judgments, the words we hurl as insults, is that they deny our humanity and our stories.”