2001: A Space Odyssey Quotes

It was barely audible, yet it stopped them dead, so that they stood paralyzed on the trail with their jaws hanging slackly. (2.12)

He was looking at a peaceful family group, differing in only one respect from the scenes he knew. The male, female, and two infants that had mysteriously appeared before him were gorged and replete...

For a few seconds, Moon-Watcher stood uncertainly above his new victim, trying to grasp the strange and wonderful fact that the dead leopard could kill again. Now he was master of the world, and he...

…he had only to put the corpse where he had left the new baby at the last quarter of the moon, and the hyenas would do the rest. (1.9)

…there was already something in his gaze beyond the capacity of any ape. In those dark, deep-set eyes was a dawning awareness—the first intimations of an intelligence that could not possibly fu...

They could never guess that their minds were being probed, their bodies mapped, their reactions studied, their potentials evaluated. (2.18)

The future was, very literally, in their own hands. (4.6)

One of the mothers, defending the infant she could not properly feed, gave him an angry growl in return; he lacked the energy even to cuff her for her presumption. (1.4)