Georgie

“Life reached an evolutionary milestone when it climbed onto land from the ocean, but those first fish that climbed onto land ceased to be fish. Similarly, when humans truly enter space and are freed from the Earth, they cease to be human.”
― Liu Cixin, Death's End

“Basira, who had come to us from Algiers, made a face. “So, then he tried to show me how to use a slide rule!” “No—for a differential equation?” Myrtle, the only other American in our group, covered her mouth and laughed until her cheeks turned red. “What a buffoon.”
― Mary Robinette Kowal, The Calculating Stars