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Jonathan Katz
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Cleave the Sparrow
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2025
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“doubt is essential to our search for truth, because the ability to doubt is the evidence of a doubter’s true existence. Cogito, ergo sum. Doubt is the heart of the scientific method, too. Doubt is the crux of humility,”
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“Which suggests something ominous to me. That all our self-knowledge, all our dreams and motivations, our histories even, might be nothing more than a seat-of-our-pants, ex post facto rationalization of things that were decided billions of years ago by an ancient civilization of alien slugs.”
― Cleave the Sparrow
― Cleave the Sparrow
“Remember this when you’re considering the odds of your own existence—meaning the chances of your precise genetic combination emerging from the primordial ooze. As calculated by biologist Ali Binazir, those odds are 1 in 10 to the 2,685,000th power. That’s a one with two million, six hundred eighty five thousand zeros. It’s a number so absurdly large, it dwarfs our mammoth estimates of planets and digital humans. In fact, it dwarfs everything, everywhere. There’s really nothing larger in this whole universe than the improbability of your own existence, and yet here you are.”
― Cleave the Sparrow
― Cleave the Sparrow
“Thorp had tried to build a wall between North and South Dakota for some reason. He contracted the job to his son, and the whole thing turned out to be a money laundering scheme to fund disbanded Nicaraguan Contras who were launching a tech start-up in Ireland.”
― Cleave the Sparrow
― Cleave the Sparrow
“Which suggests something ominous to me. That all our self-knowledge, all our dreams and motivations, our histories even, might be nothing more than a seat-of-our-pants, ex post facto rationalization of things that were decided billions of years ago by an ancient civilization of alien slugs.”
― Cleave the Sparrow
― Cleave the Sparrow
“Performative violence is all you troglodytes can understand. So, we’ll do it that way.”
― Cleave the Sparrow
― Cleave the Sparrow
“Remember this when you’re considering the odds of your own existence—meaning the chances of your precise genetic combination emerging from the primordial ooze. As calculated by biologist Ali Binazir, those odds are 1 in 10 to the 2,685,000th power. That’s a one with two million, six hundred eighty five thousand zeros. It’s a number so absurdly large, it dwarfs our mammoth estimates of planets and digital humans. In fact, it dwarfs everything, everywhere. There’s really nothing larger in this whole universe than the improbability of your own existence, and yet here you are.”
― Cleave the Sparrow
― Cleave the Sparrow
“Tom, do you know how evolution by natural selection works? — Mostly, yeah. — Then you know it’s not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent— — It’s the one with fins. — It’s the one who’s most responsive to change. — Oh, right.”
― Cleave the Sparrow
― Cleave the Sparrow
