“Simmons hadn’t been too surprised to find Franklin a young bearded man who looked more like he ought to be doing a poetry reading at a college than leading people to look at a classified government facility.”
― Area 51
― Area 51
“And there’s no point in me doing anything if I can’t write about it,” I continued. “It would be like . . . walking ten miles without my Fitbit on—a complete waste. I mean, I do do things I don’t write about: I use the bathroom, I have sex, but I try to be quick about it.”
― Themes and Variations
― Themes and Variations
“In 1936, Gerhard Gentzen provided a proof of the consistency of arithmetic, but to do it he needed to use a controversial technique known as transfinite induction. This technique is not among the usual methods of proof, and it hardly seemed appropriate for guaranteeing the consistency of arithmetic. What Gentzen had done was prove the obvious by assuming the doubtful.”
― Arrival: Film tie-in
― Arrival: Film tie-in
“Teg boiled it down to an essence: If only one person followed such guiding principles, this was a better universe.”
― Heretics of Dune
― Heretics of Dune
“Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order.”
― Heretics of Dune
― Heretics of Dune
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