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“…[S]cientists impose on science not only their goals but also their theoretical and explanatory tastes.” p.52

“Ultimate knowledge is impossible, because our senses lie to us. But they’re the only mediator between the things that surround us and our thoughts, our intellect.” p.135

This book just jumped from good to mind-blowing in one chapter… 🤩

“… [T]hey we’re throwing away their lives for the price of taking the greatest possible number of the Barbarians with them. It was a superb and glorious piece of waste, one of those things that men do when for the moment they cease to be quite men, and walk with the high gods.” p.283

“…[F]ew men, I think, have the ruthless logic of a woman.” p.248

“There is nothing better than imagining other worlds… to forget the painful one we live in. At least I thought so then. I hadn’t realized that, imagining other worlds, you end up changing this one.” p.99