Daughter of Time Trilogy Quotes

“Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear. —Albert Camus”
― Erec Stebbins, Daughter of Time Trilogy

“or we recall the past, to stop its too rapid flight. So imprudent are we that we wander in the times which are not ours, and do not think of the only one which belongs to us; and so idle are we that we dream of those times which are no more, and thoughtlessly overlook that which alone exists. Blaise Pascal”
― Erec Stebbins, Daughter of Time Trilogy

“The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. Mark Twain”
― Erec Stebbins, Daughter of Time Trilogy

“To understand recursion, you must understand recursion, until you do. —Programmer’s joke”
― Erec Stebbins, Daughter of Time Trilogy

“Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down. —Ray Bradbury”
― Erec Stebbins, Daughter of Time Trilogy

“We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth." —William Anders”
― Erec Stebbins, Daughter of Time Trilogy

“We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins. —Arthur C. Clarke”
― Erec Stebbins, Daughter of Time Trilogy

“What were we, exactly? Atoms that on their own have no will, no purpose, nothing but constraints based on “laws” of physics (whatever those really are ultimately). Somehow, under the conditions of New Earth—temperature, radiation impact from the sun and cosmic rays, composition, pressure—these atomic entities can form organized structures that at one point obtained the power to replicate. Then the process of “survival of the stable” took over, and evolution produced increasingly complex molecules, cells, bodies—minds. That love and the ideals of beauty and wonder all come from the arbitrary dance of molecules like carbon chains and water is extremely strange when you really think about it. In fact, it makes no sense at all to me.”
― Erec Stebbins, Daughter of Time Trilogy

“There is one disease which is widespread, and from which men rarely escape: that every person thinks his mind more clever and more learned than it is. I have found that this disease has attacked many an intelligent person. — Maimonides”
― Erec Stebbins, Daughter of Time Trilogy