„We cannot count upon the secret being kept. It’s a fact of nature, and as somebody or other remarked long ago, Nature is a blabbermouth; ask the right question, and you’ll always get the answer.“
— James Blish, kniha The Quincunx of Time
Zdroj: The Quincunx of Time (1973), Chapter 9, “A Comity of Futures” (p. 105)