“Are all Russians crazy?” “Yes,” he said with a smile. “It is the only way to be Russian and happy at the same time.” “That’s…dark.” “That’s Russian!”
― Project Hail Mary
― Project Hail Mary
“I don’t want to look dumb in front of the aliens.”
― Project Hail Mary
― Project Hail Mary
“Stupid humanity. Getting in the way of my hobbies.”
― Project Hail Mary
― Project Hail Mary
“I’m smart enough now to know I’m stupid. That’s progress.”
― Project Hail Mary
― Project Hail Mary
“Of course the Eridian language has no words for colors. Why would it? I never thought of colors as a mysterious thing. But if you’ve never heard of them before, I guess they’re pretty weird. We have names for frequency ranges in the electromagnetic spectrum. Then again, my students all have eyes and they were still amazed when I told them “x-rays,” “microwaves,” “Wi-Fi,” and “purple” were all just wavelengths of light.”
― Project Hail Mary
― Project Hail Mary
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