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What a relief it must be for young girls to find they do not HAVE to hang around with boys!
Communication between individuals arises from intellectual desire, not social need.
discover everything there is to know.
What you can know is relative to who you are, and there are infinite whos. What you can hope to know is everything relevant to who you are.
immortal as long as the universe itself persists.
can adapt to change and exploit opportunities.
they had no purpose. There was no biological imperative to go on,
A worldwide chain of experimentation and decision-making is set in motion, a system that feeds information in and gets action out.
Everything seems to show the wondrous order of nature and yet nothing is truly natural.
A Garden of Eden from which we are forever excluded.
The universe had sprung into being due to an imbalance between matter and antimatter—which gave rise to All That Was.
Diplomacy, as the saying went, was the art of shaking someone’s hand with your right until your left found the knife.
Only one needs to find the answer, but difference is strength. To save everything, we need as much difference as possible.
the great cats secure their hold on the world by having all of nature love and worship them.
“It’s a million-to-one long shot, and only these two desperate lesbians can save the world. Perfect action movie material.”
The rat kings would pass their fancy robes and spacious chambers on to their little rat princes and princesses. And all their time and effort would go into jockeying with each other and maintaining the status quo. They probably didn’t do the hard work of understanding how things worked—they had people to do that for them.
Auruthmer (or Professor Ruth Emerson,
Mallory, who was more pugnacious than Julian would have liked, given he was sharing an internal organ with her.
like someone trying to refine an experiment, someone searching for something.
They were surplus to the requirements of this scenario, utterly without significance or power. The only way they could take control of their destiny was to choose a side.
“If the governments of Earth, our Earth, can get their act together and put away their rivalries, we can rise to face these challenges together. And the time to start working on these future problems is today. I can’t stress this strongly enough. Speaking as an academic, a scientist, I have no power to force such cooperation or such foresight. I can only state my case as forcefully as possible and hope that sane minds prevail.
