27 quotes
While a gigantic amount has been written or spoken, culture in the end is the fraction that gets remembered.
Beyond Infinity (2004)
To us, most human morality is carefully thought-through self-congratulation.
Beyond Infinity (2004)
Uncompromising zeal doesn’t look in the mirror much.
Beyond Infinity (2004)
History held counterexamples to any facile rule.
Beyond Infinity (2004)
They all lived as ants in the shadow of mountains of millennia, and time’s sheer mass shaded every word.
Beyond Infinity (2004)
Quantum uncertainty, chaos—these forever screen precise knowledge of the future from our eyes.
Beyond Infinity (2004)
When you know nothing, you are free to hope.
Beyond Infinity (2004)
But then, growing up was not supposed to be easy. One Mom remarked offhandedly, “It’s the toughest work you’ll ever do.”
Beyond Infinity (2004)
You need friends to keep you on your feet, and enemies to keep you on your toes.
Beyond Infinity (2004)
Great error, seen up close, can look like true greatness.
Beyond Infinity (2004)
Propaganda of sufficient age became art.
Beyond Infinity (2004)
Good food was like sex, one of life’s blessings, but they both lost their edge when talked about too much.
Beyond Infinity (2004)
Evolution was still at work, pruning the failures from the gene pool with unblinking patience.
Beyond Infinity (2004)
An animal that liked abstractions? Maybe that wasn’t all that bad a definition of being human.
Beyond Infinity (2004)
The intellectual breeds of humans think in terms of abstractions. But most people have emotions and think they are having ideas.
Beyond Infinity (2004)
Nature’s nature was change. It was not a museum.
Beyond Infinity (2004)
Individual recollections of the past are easily shaped by others. After a while they need have little bearing on the once-lived events.
Beyond Infinity (2004)
In any case, caution outweighed theory, as mice knew about elephants.
Beyond Infinity (2004)
Curious, how any tool properly made acquires a beauty.
Beyond Infinity (2004)
From birth it had integrated each experience with its innate sense of balance and appropriate scale—indeed, this was the sole purpose of its conscious being.
Beyond Infinity (2004)