The Martian Chronicles Quotes

“We Earth Men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.”

“That’s how it was now. A storm gathered, yet the sky was clear. Lightning was expected, yet there was no cloud.”

″...at base, science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.”

“Space travel has again made children of us all.”

“Once they had liked painting pictures with chemical fire, swimming in the canals in the seasons when the wine trees filled them with green liquors, and talking into the dawn together by the blue phosphorous portraits in the speaking room.”

“Keep your silly, feminine dreams to yourself!”

″‘That song. That fine and beautiful song.’ She closed her eyes and hummed, but it was not the song. ‘I’ve forgotten it. And, somehow, I don’t want to forget it. It’s something I want always to remember.‘”