The Hammer of God

Meteorites don’t fall on the Earth. They fall on the Sun and the Earth gets in the way.” - John W. Campbell

Ladies and gentlemen, those flames from the port engines are perfectly normal. The stewardess will be coming around in a moment to serve coffee, tea, or milk. I’m sorry we don’t have anything stronger on this flight—regulations don’t permit it.

Why, Robert Singh often wondered, did we give our hearts to friends whose life spans are so much shorter than our own?

The most trifling events can, in a mere moment of time, totally change the course of a man's life. And often it is not possible, even at the end, to decide whether the change was for better or for worse.

Given for one instant an intelligence that could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated… an intelligence sufficiently vast to submit these data to analysis… it would embrace in the same formula the movements of the greatest bodies in the universe and those of the lightest atom; for it, nothing would be uncertain and the future, as the past, would be present to its eyes.” —PIERRE-SIMON DE LAPLACE, 1814

—Hay una regla que he intentado respetar toda mi vida: no pierdas nunca el sueño por problemas que no está en tu mano resolver.