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• Our ancestors harnessed the power of a sun, and so again shall we.
  -- Commissioner Pravin Lal, "The Science of Our Fathe...
• The Mind Worms are the natural defenses of the living Planet--the white blood cells, if you will.
  In a world in which unassimilated thought represents danger, the Mind Worm seeks out concentrations of sentient mental energy and destroys them, ruthlessly and efficiently....
• Until quite recently, spider silk had the highest tensile strength of any substance known to man, and the name Silksteel pays homage to the arachnid for good reason.
  -- Commissioner Pravin Lal, "U.N. Scientific Survey...
• Once a man has changed the relationship between himself and his environment, he cannot return to the blissful ignorance he left.
  Motion, of necessity, involves a change in perspective....
• Science is a history of superseded theories.
• I loved my chosen. How then to face the day when she left me?
  So I took from her body a single cell, perhaps to love her again....
• In the years since our arrival, we have foolishly disrupted so many of Planet's ecosystems that entire species may vanish without our ever having understood, or even known them.
  We must halt this plunder, and halt it immediately, for our own survival as a species depends on our ability to strike a balance on this world....
• The entire character of a base and its inhabitants can be absorbed in a quick trip to the Rec Commons.
  The sweaty arenas of Fort Legion, the glittering gambling halls of Morgan Bank, the sunny lovers' trysts in Gaia's High Garden, or the somber reading rooms of U....
• As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny.
  The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism....