The Garden of Rama
Arthur C. Clarke
Top 10 Best Quotes
“[T]hese leaders must not believe they are actually being watched, for their behavior in no way reflects the possible existence of a set of values or ethical laws that supersedes their own dominion.”
“Jealousy is a terrible thing. “It doth mock the meat it feeds upon” is an understatement. Jealousy is completely consuming, totally irrational, and absolutely debilitating. The most wonderful people in the world are nothing but raging animals when trapped in the throes of jealousy.”
“We wanted you to have a feel for the size of your habitat, in case you needed that to be more comfortable with the design process.”
“But the characteristic that is truly special about our species...[is] our ability to model our world and understand both it and where we fit into its overall scheme....”
“throughout the flight, but there”
“You see,” Nicole added, “the mythological Eden was a beginning, the start of what we might call our modern Western culture.”
“Why should I be? Nothing I have seen here in New Eden or on Earth suggests to me that humanity is capable of achieving harmony in its relationship with itself, much less with any other living creatures. Occasionally there is an individual, or even a group, that is able to transcend the basic genetic and environmental drawbacks of the species . . . But these people are miracles, certainly not the norm.”
“The human habitat continues to be dominated by individuals with characteristics decidedly different from the human contingent observed inside Rama II and at the Node.”
“The cause of suffering is desire,”
“Take f(N) = N2—N + 41,” he continued, “where N is any integer from 0 through 40. That function will generate your entire sequence”
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