The Vital Abyss (Expanse, #5.5)

by James S.A. Corey

I have heard it said that how you spend your day is how you spend your life,

What astounded me was that the cutting edge of human knowledge was so close.

There is nothing so destructive and also so easy to overlook as a bad idea.

In theory, therefore, any rational number can be expressed with a single mark on a bar of metal. Using a simple alphabetic code, a mark that calculated to a ratio of .1215225 could be read as 12-15-22-5, or “l-o-v-e.” The complete plays of Shakespeare could be written in a single mark, if it were possible to measure accurately enough.

My worth had been determined from without, by how I imagined that I appeared to others. That is what being a social animal is, after all. Emotional and definitional interdependence.