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“I think that house might be Hubert Marsten’s monument to evil, a kind of psychic sounding board. A supernatural beacon, if you like.
“No, friend. We might be talking about the same thing.”
― The Dark Forest
― The Dark Forest
“But we’ve long been called on to think about matters that belonged to the province of God.”
― Death's End
― Death's End
“Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.”
― Language: an Introduction to the Study of Speech
― Language: an Introduction to the Study of Speech
“On Imperial ships, officers were encouraged to drink nutritive beverages instead of consuming food; it was more efficient in terms of both ship resources and officer time, and the medics insisted the nutritives were healthier, too.”
― Lost Stars
― Lost Stars
“From a scientific perspective, ‘destroy’ isn’t really accurate. Nothing has disappeared. All the matter that used to be there is still there, and so is all the angular momentum. It’s only the arrangement of matter that has changed, like a deck of cards being reshuffled. But life is like a straight flush: Once you shuffle, it’s gone.”
― Death's End
― Death's End
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