The Final Equinox Quotes

“Science isn’t a book of explanations. It’s a process. A process we’re continuing to refine and make more precise. Despite setbacks and wrong turns, nobody has ever seriously said the problem with science was its demand for more precision and deeper understanding.”
― Andrew Mayne, The Final Equinox

“If Columbus came back from his voyage today, Twitter and Facebook would still probably report his discovery as fake news,”
― Andrew Mayne, The Final Equinox

“Her voice trembles as she thinks about the moments that made her late husband special. When they’re alive, it’s easy to see the flaws. When they’re gone, you tend to notice only the hole in the Earth that they left.”
― Andrew Mayne, The Final Equinox

“What we think of as vision is actually our memory getting frequent updates about points of interest. This is why glowing alarm clocks appear to bounce at night and simple optical illusions fool us.”
― Andrew Mayne, The Final Equinox

“While technology keeps moving forward, sometimes I feel like time has stopped.”
― Andrew Mayne, The Final Equinox

“You’re making an assumption that I have a view of the world that centers on a specific truth. I don’t. I have a collection of opinions with varying degrees of probability. I’m willing to discount any one of them if there’s sufficient evidence.”
― Andrew Mayne, The Final Equinox

“Belief isn’t zero or one for me. I think in terms of probability. I’ll never have enough information to say something is absolutely one way or the other, but I can be persuaded that something is vastly more likely to be true than not.”
― Andrew Mayne, The Final Equinox

“You haven’t flown until you’ve taken to the air in a third-world country on board a craft with visible rust and a pilot who keeps the manual in his lap. Fortunately, our pilot seems to know what he’s doing, and the helicopter looks brand new.”
― Andrew Mayne, The Final Equinox

“The rules of the universe aren’t what we observe . . . they’re what we believe we’re observing based upon the best evidence.”
― Andrew Mayne, The Final Equinox

“follows rules or it doesn’t. If there are no rules, then nothing makes sense.” This”
― Andrew Mayne, The Final Equinox

“how unsupervised machine learning works. You let the machine pick up things instead of giving it a specific goal. This also appears to be how our subconscious can sometimes solve problems.”
― Andrew Mayne, The Final Equinox

“if nobody can contradict the story, then it’s pseudoreal,”
― Andrew Mayne, The Final Equinox

“A man who believes that a convincing lie can shape the cosmos in a way he sees fit may not have a problem erasing one or two inconvenient barriers in his path. Obstacles that happen to be sitting in his private jet.”
― Andrew Mayne, The Final Equinox

“What’s the delimiter between pyramid and ziggurat?”
― Andrew Mayne, The Final Equinox

“ziggurat,”
― Andrew Mayne, The Final Equinox

“Being smart is not enough to get away with a crime . . . you have to spend time getting good at it.”
― Andrew Mayne, The Final Equinox

“There’s a weird historical link between cults and science fiction. Not only do science-fiction writers create cults, sometimes cult leaders become obsessed with science fiction.”
― Andrew Mayne, The Final Equinox

“Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini.”
― Andrew Mayne, The Final Equinox

“exsanguinates”
― Andrew Mayne, The Final Equinox

“Thinking about this, I realize that, strictly speaking, the first radio telescope wasn’t built in 1932. It was the telegraph system that in 1859 got struck by the Carrington Event, a powerful geomagnetic storm caused by the sun. The sky lit up so brightly in some parts of the world that people thought night had turned to daylight. We didn’t fully understand what was going on at the time, but all those telegraph wires strung up on wooden poles across the US and Europe acted as antennas and absorbed a huge amount of energy, frying electrical equipment and electrocuting telegraph operators.”
― Andrew Mayne, The Final Equinox

“perspicacious”
― Andrew Mayne, The Final Equinox

“When they’re alive, it’s easy to see the flaws. When they’re gone, you tend to notice only the hole in the Earth that they left.”
― Andrew Mayne, The Final Equinox