Frases de Charles Sheffield
2 0Charles Sheffield
Fecha de nacimiento: 25. Junio 1935
Fecha de muerte: 2. Noviembre 2002
Charles Sheffield fue un físico y escritor de ciencia ficción británico.
Frases Charles Sheffield
„Era fuerte cuando él estaba débil, cortésmente débil cuando era él el fuerte.“
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— Charles Sheffield, libro Brother to Dragons
Fuente: Brother to Dragons
„That’s a whole lot of ifs you got there.“
— Charles Sheffield, libro Resurgence
“True. But which would you prefer, Louis Nenda?” Atvar H’sial rose from her crouched position. “A substantial set of contingent possibilities, or a single unpleasant certainty?”
Fuente: The Heritage Universe, Resurgence (2002), Chapter 32, “Escape Clause” (p. 385)
„You crazy? You’ve got me confused with a guy who cares about other people.“
— Charles Sheffield, libro Resurgence
Fuente: The Heritage Universe, Resurgence (2002), Chapter 30, “Stripping the Ship” (p. 368)
— Charles Sheffield, libro Resurgence
Fuente: The Heritage Universe, Resurgence (2002), Chapter 20, “Tally on Down” (p. 246)
„Idle wishing for circumstances different from what you had was a waste of time.“
— Charles Sheffield, libro Resurgence
Fuente: The Heritage Universe, Resurgence (2002), Chapter 20, “Tally on Down” (p. 245)
„I do not like to concatenate implausibilities.“
— Charles Sheffield, libro Resurgence
Fuente: The Heritage Universe, Resurgence (2002), Chapter 16, “And Then There Were None” (p. 188)
— Charles Sheffield, libro Resurgence
Fuente: The Heritage Universe, Resurgence (2002), Chapter 16, “And Then There Were None” (p. 187)
— Charles Sheffield, libro Resurgence
Fuente: The Heritage Universe, Resurgence (2002), Chapter 8, “Theories, Theories, Theories” (p. 84)
„When you have something to do, do it. When you have nothing to do, sleep.“
— Charles Sheffield, libro Resurgence
Fuente: The Heritage Universe, Resurgence (2002), Chapter 4, “Sleepless in Miranda Port” (p. 33)
„Nothing in life produce a more powerful joy than a near miss by the Angel of Death.“
— Charles Sheffield, libro Convergence
Fuente: The Heritage Universe, Convergence (1997), Chapter 26 (p. 516)
„When a person was so consistently wrong, it was time to give up having opinions.“
— Charles Sheffield, libro Convergence
Fuente: The Heritage Universe, Convergence (1997), Chapter 23 (p. 488)
„One form of insanity bears the name curiosity.“
— Charles Sheffield, libro Convergence
Fuente: The Heritage Universe, Convergence (1997), Chapter 18 (p. 433)
— Charles Sheffield, libro Convergence
Fuente: The Heritage Universe, Convergence (1997), Chapter 13 (p. 381)
„Science wasn’t a show-business talent, conducted in large halls and decided by audience applause.“
— Charles Sheffield, libro Convergence
Fuente: The Heritage Universe, Convergence (1997), Chapter 6 (p. 321)
— Charles Sheffield, libro Convergence
Fuente: The Heritage Universe, Convergence (1997), Chapter 6 (p. 317)
„What I found was worse than diversity—it was insanity.“
— Charles Sheffield, libro Transcendence
Fuente: The Heritage Universe, Transcendence (1992), Chapter 17 (p. 188)
„But no one, no matter how intelligent, could make good inferences from bad data.“
— Charles Sheffield, libro Transcendence
Fuente: The Heritage Universe, Transcendence (1992), Chapter 11 (p. 126)
„If you win too easy, better ask what’s going on that you don’t know about.“
— Charles Sheffield, libro Transcendence
Fuente: The Heritage Universe, Transcendence (1992), Chapter 11 (p. 125)
