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Week 15 (Extra Quote)

"The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible that it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas." - Ursula Le Guin

I absolutely loved, loved, loved reading this story. My favorite read of the semester, hands down.

Week 14

 "Actually it was very largely the refugee scientists in England and in the United States who took the first steps to interest their governments in the making of atomic explosives and who took some steps, very primitive ones, in thinking out how this might be done and what might be involved in it" - J. Robert Oppenheimer

Week 13

"I "struggled" -- using all the metaphors morality and social convention could provide in defense of monogamy--but finally "succumbed" to desire." - Hank Pine 

Week 12

"However, it is a giant leap from observing that there are neurological differences between the sexes
to assuming that these differences correspond to the classic Reason/Nature or logic/emotion dichotomies" - Robin Turner

Week 11

"The relationship between genes and cells is exceedingly indirect; there are no blueprints or maps to guide our genes as they build or rebuild the body" - Marvin Minsky

Week 10

"The impulse to avoid harm, which gives trolley ponderers the willies when they consider throwing a man off a bridge, can also be found in rhesus monkeys, who go hungry rather than pull a chain that delivers food to them and a shock to another monkey" - Steven Pinker

Week 9

"There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk "his life, his fortune and his sacred honor" on an outcome dubious" - Robert Heinlein

Week 8

"I should have stayed in camp that morning--but I didn't. I felt a strong subconscious urge to go with Tom, and I obeyed it." - Donald C. Johanson

Week 7

"The bombs were used against Japan. That had been foreseen and in principle approved by Roosevelt and Churchill when they met in Canada and again in Hyde Park." - J. Robert Oppenheimer

Week 5

"Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive . In the middle category, however--that of the unnecessary but
undestructive, that of comfort, luxury, exuberance, etc.--they could perfectly well have
central heating, subway trains, washing machines, and all kinds of marvelous devices
not yet invented here, floating light-sources, fuelless power, a cure for the common cold." - Ursula Le Guin

Week 4

"The cyborg is resolutely committed to partiality, irony, intimacy, and perversity. It is oppositional, utopian, and completely without innocence." - Donna J. Haraway

Week 3

"And that's the way it went. But finally, by much liquor and more perspiration, I got some of the story out of him before I gave him an anytal and put him to bed. Then I hunted up Helen and dug the rest of the story from her, until it made sense." - Lester del Rey

Week 2

"Suddenly and blindingly it came upon her what she had done. She knew now why such heady violence had flooded her whenever she though of him-knew why the light-devil in her own form had laughed so derisively-kenw why the price she must pay for taking the gift from a demon. She knew that there was no light anywhere in the world, now that Guillaume was gone." - C. L. Moore

Week 1

"This moronic impatience with the complexities of real-life is also at the bottom of sci-fi's indecent obsession with technology Needle-shaped space cruisers run neck and neck with nekked ladies both inside the covers and out"