8 quotes
The universe was a language with a perfectly ambiguous grammar. Every physical event was an utterance that could be parsed in two entirely different ways, one causal and the other teleological.
Stories of Your Life and Others (2002)
God is not just, God is not kind, God is not merciful, and understanding that is essential to true devotion.
Stories of Your Life and Others (2002)
Just as seeing Heaven's light gave him an awareness of God's presence in all things in the mortal plane, so it has made him aware of God's absence in all things in Hell.
Stories of Your Life and Others (2002)
Technology is being used to manipulate us through our emotional reactions, so it’s only fair that we use it to protect ourselves too.
Stories of Your Life and Others (2002)
That wouldn’t be maturity; it would be letting an expert system make your decisions for you. Maturity means seeing the differences, but realizing they don’t matter. There’s no technological shortcut.
Stories of Your Life and Others (2002)
We can’t avoid these images and still live in the modern world. And that means we can’t kick this habit, because beauty is a drug that you can’t abstain from unless you literally keep your eyes closed all the time.
Stories of Your Life and Others (2002)
What made it possible for me to exercise freedom of choice also made it impossible to know the future. Conversely, now that I know the future, I would never act contrary to that future. [...] Those who've read the Book of Ages never admit to it.
Stories of Your Life and Others (2002)
Centuries of their labor would not reveal to them any more of Creation than they already knew. Yet through their endeavor, men would glimpse the unimaginable artistry of Yahweh's work, in seeing how ingeniously the world had been constructed. By this construction, Yahweh's work was indicated, and Yahweh's work was concealed.
Stories of Your Life and Others (2002)