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Christopher Steinsvold
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Born
Huntington, The United States
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Harper Lee, Dostoyevsky, Mel Fitting, among others
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May 2016
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The Book of Ralph
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Topological Models of Belief Logics
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“You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, not look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books. You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, you shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.”
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“As much as humans try to avoid falsehood, you embrace it in the fiction of novels and movies. As much as you hate being wrong and being lied to, you love to immerse yourselves in good fiction, to believe the story you know is false.” “I”
― The Book of Ralph
― The Book of Ralph
“We have a special word for this,” Ralph said in normal volume. “The best translation I can think of is ‘suigenocide.’ It’s the saddest word in our language. Entire species destroyed because they could not think past their own little time period. They didn’t care about future generations, they only cared about themselves, and somehow, no one else mattered.”
― The Book of Ralph
― The Book of Ralph
“We have a special word for this,” Ralph said in normal volume. “The best translation I can think of is ‘suigenocide.’ It’s the saddest word in our language. Entire species destroyed because they could not think past their own little time period. They didn’t care about future generations, they only cared about themselves, and somehow, no one else mattered.”
― The Book of Ralph
― The Book of Ralph
“As much as humans try to avoid falsehood, you embrace it in the fiction of novels and movies. As much as you hate being wrong and being lied to, you love to immerse yourselves in good fiction, to believe the story you know is false.” “I”
― The Book of Ralph
― The Book of Ralph
“Logic is our assurance,” MacDonald said calmly. “The only thing worth sending from star to star is information, and the certain profit from such an exchange far outweighs the uncertain advantage from any other kind of behavior. The first benefit is the knowledge of other intelligent creatures in the universe—this alone gives us strength and courage. Then comes information from an alien world; it is like having our own instruments there, even our own scientists, to measure and record, only with the additional advantage of a breadth and duration of measurements under a variety of conditions. Finally comes the cultural and scientific knowledge and development of another race, and the treasure to be gained from this kind of exchange is beyond calculation.”
― The Listeners
― The Listeners
“He thought how wonderful it would be if he could take off his shoes and walk barefooted in the grass the way he used to do in the park when he was a boy. What a fine picture that would be—the President walking barefooted on the White House lawn—and he knew if he did it the picture would be reproduced in one hundred million homes across the nation and the world and it would win him votes. The people liked to think of the President being a bit impulsive when it came to matters of the heart, a bit comic in domestic affairs, a bit inferior to each of them in some way....”
― The Listeners
― The Listeners
“In a universe whose size is beyond human imagining, where our world floats like a dust mote in the void of night, men have grown inconceivably lonely. We scan the time scale and the mechanisms of life itself for portents and signs of the invisible. As the only thinking mammals on the planet—perhaps the only thinking animals in the entire sidereal universe—the burden of consciousness has grown heavy upon us. We watch the stars, but the signs are uncertain. We uncover the bones of the past and seek for our origins. There is a path there, but it appears to wander. The vagaries of the road may have a meaning, however; it is thus we torture ourselves.... Loren Eiseley, 1946...”
― The Listeners
― The Listeners
