To kill is a breaking of civil and moral laws we've lived by for
thousands of years.
-- Dr. Richard Daystrom, "The Ultimate Computer," stardate 4731.3.
From a long view of the history of mankind -- seen from ay, ten thousand
years from now -- there can be little doubt that the most significant event
of the 19th century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of
electrodynamics....