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“Hamlet misspoke, Strawl decided. It is consciousness that makes cowards of us all, not conscience. Right and wrong are venomless when compared to the simple awareness of being alive. The knowledge that existence can equal something past the sum of our circulation and digestion, that those corporeal purposes serve a galaxy of space between a man's ears, whose suns and planets obey his own peculiar science, but one in which he alone recognizes the order, and only in glimpses, epiphanies that melt before he can speak or even think them--and the knowledge even this distant self is not his possession but belongs to others weighing and judging the dim and distant light he emits.”
― Bruce Holbert

“However, if your understanding of a science extends only to the point where your political preconceptions are supported, then you are an ideologue, not a scientist.”
― Adam Rutherford, Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics

“The press loves a heretic, especially one who can set fire to things and then walk away to look for the next pile of kindling. It is more problematic when the arsonist is in the heart of government, but is ill informed and, worse, spellbound by a science that is barely understood by experts, let alone tourists.”
― Adam Rutherford, Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics

“What opens our minds and shows the limits of our ideas is an encounter with other people, other cultures, other ideas.”
― Carlo Rovelli, The First Scientist: Anaximander and His Legacy

“It is entropy, not energy, that keeps stones on the ground and the world turning.”
― Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

“Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

“I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

“But, whatever you do, do not let the past be a straitjacket!”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

“Distrust the obvious, suspect the traditional . . . for in the past mankind has not done well when saddling itself with governments”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

“Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.”
― Lysander Spooner

“Tyranny is the deliberate removal of nuance”
― Albert Maysles

“The tyrant is a child of Pride
Who drinks from his sickening cup
Recklessness and vanity,
Until from his high crest headlong
He plummets to the dust of hope.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

“Silent acquiescence in the face of tyranny is no better than outright agreement.”
― C.J. Redwine, Defiance