The Long Earth (The Long Earth, #1) QUOTES

2 " But then science is nothing but a series of questions that lead to more questions. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Long Earth (The Long Earth, #1)

4 " Maybe the only significant difference between a really smart simulation and a human being was the noise they made when you punched them. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Long Earth (The Long Earth, #1)

6 " When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Long Earth (The Long Earth, #1)

8 " I find it best to worry about the little things. Things that can be helped by being worried about. Such as the making of clam chowder, (..)coffee. The bigger stuff, well, you have to handle that as it faces you. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Long Earth (The Long Earth, #1)

10 " But smart has to have a depth as well as a length. Some smart brushes over a problem. And some smart grinds exceeding slow, like the mills of God, and it grinds fine, and when it comes up with an answer, it has been tested. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Long Earth (The Long Earth, #1)

12 " So now, he hoped, here was a chance to bring mankind back into the book-loving fold. He gloated. There was still no electronics in the pioneer worlds, was there? Where was your internet? Hah! Where was Google? Where was your mother’s old Kindle? Your iPad 25? Where was Wickedpedia? (Very primly, he always called it that, just to show his disdain; very few people noticed.) All gone, unbelievers! All those fancy toy-gadgets stuffed in drawers, screens blank as the eyes of corpses, left behind. Books – oh yes, real books – were flying off his shelves. Out in the Long Earth humanity was starting again in the Stone Age. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Long Earth (The Long Earth, #1)

14 " Oh, don’t be absurd, man.' The Prime Minister sat back in his chair. 'Come on. We can’t just ban a thing because we can’t control it.'

The minister responsible for health and safety looked startled. 'I don’t see why not. It’s never stopped us before. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Long Earth (The Long Earth, #1)

16 " it best to worry about the little things. Things that can be helped by being worried about. Such as the making of clam chowder, and giving you a coffee. The bigger stuff, well, you "

― Stephen Baxter , The Long Earth (The Long Earth, #1)

18 " But God also helped those who helped themselves, and presumably expected the chosen to bring warm clothing, water purification tablets, basic medication, a weapon such as the bronze knives that were selling these days, possibly a tent - in short, to bring some common sense to the party. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Long Earth (The Long Earth, #1)

20 " Surley, they couldn't be French?

He tried French anyway, 'Parlay buffon say? "

― Terry Pratchett , The Long Earth (The Long Earth, #1)