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“We have found nothing you can sell. We have found nothing you can put to practical use. We have found no worlds that could be easily or ethically settled, were that end desired. We have satisfied nothing but curiosity, gained nothing but knowledge.”
― Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

“I felt nothing but quiet loathing toward them, and the purity of that feeling was the ugliest I've ever felt. It's not their fault, the good scientist in me feebly argued. They meant no harm. They don't deserve this.
I don't care, the raw spite in me argued. And I didn't. For all my impartiality, for all my trying to set aside anthropocentric biases and see the beauty in all forms, I truly didn't care. I watched them burn, and felt a wicked gratitude.”
― Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

“Geography, tradition, and culture intersect to make blacks likely research subjects for new technologies, but race and economics tend to place them outside the marketplace for these same technologies when they are perfected.”
― Harriet A. Washington, Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

“Have you ever been in a place where history becomes tangible? Where you stand motionless, feeling time and importance press around you, press into you?”
― Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate