125 Quotes by Robert J. Sawyer

Virtual reality is just air guitar writ large.

Honor does not have to be defended.

You can’t choose the ways in which you’ll be tested.

That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunchest creationist. But that it can transform one species into another – that, in fact, has never been observed.

Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed.

The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.

General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.

How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the gene pool, why do we feel they are wrong? Shouldn’t the only morality that evolution produces be the kind Bill Clinton had – being sorry you got caught?