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"Speak up, destiny, speak up! Destiny always seems decades away, but suddenly it’s not decades away; it’s right now. But maybe destiny is always right now, right here, right this very instant, maybe."

The author doesn't have kind words for Lysenko.

Galton befriended a Jewish eugenicist teenager.

Also, the Army Alpha Test is dumber every time you look at it. The definition of table as "something you eat on" was marked as wrong.

Woodrow Wilson was embarassed during his presidency by the fact that his opponents remembered his earlier racist tract against Hungarians and Italians, among other races.

"LADY REPORTER: Are you in favor of Motherhood, Lord Ragelle?
DEFENSE MINISTER: I am sternly opposed to it, Madam. It exerts a malign influence on youth, particularly upon young recruits. The military services would have superior soldiers if our fighting men had not been corrupted by Motherhood."
Mothers are RUINING our youth!

On another note, Miller foresaw IT problems.

Hannegan's a bastard.

"Hast du schon mal etwas derart Schreckliches, Mörderisches, Unsinniges gesehen, als daß nicht irgendein Intellektueller die Welt damit hätte erneuern wollen?"

His proof that time exists is good (thanks Kant!), but the rest of his understanding of it seems problematic to me. So far, I find his philosophy dense, but not more dense than the Summa Theologica.

I think Kants prove that geometry exists may be extended to the four causes and other metaphysical categories. The only reason why I'm not sure is because every Kantian would go up the walls at that sentence and they have read him quite thoroughly.