172 Quotes by David Brin

The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.

Responsibility was our cruel mooring....

The species greatest harvest ― words.

Alex felt the words wash over him. He had the strange fantasy the things were seeking places within him to lay their young.

... science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments tell us about the universe, whether we like it or not.

If facts are inconvenient, well, damn those who live and work with facts.

The village is coming back, like it or not.

The propensity of Earthlings to get into trouble, and to learn thereby, was the reason my owners agreed to this mad venture – although no one expected such a chain of unusual calamities as befell this ship. Your talents were underrated.

It is a total mystery how we evolved minds capable of piloting cars through wild maneuvers using a wrist to steep while shouting at a cell phone. The creationists are fools for focusing on animal evolution. Darwin explains nature! He has more difficulty explaining us.