“Söz vermiştim kendi kendime: Yazı bile yazmayacaktım. Yazı yazmak da bir hırstan başka ne idi? Burada namuslu insanlar arasında sakin, ölümü bekleyecektim; hırs, hiddet neme gerekti? Yapamadım. Koştum tütüncüye, kalem kâğıt aldım. Oturdum. Ada'nın tenha yollarında gezerken canım sıkılırsa küçük değnekler yontmak için cebimde taşıdığım çakımı çıkardım. Kalemi yonttum. Yonttuktan sonra tuttum öptüm. Yazmasam deli olacaktım.”
― Son Kuşlar
― Son Kuşlar
“We can no longer afford to assume that addressing climate change is the sole responsibility of national or local governments, or corporations or individuals. This is an everyone-everywhere mission in which we all must individually and collectively assume responsibility.”
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
“That is the problem with ignorance. You can never truly know the extent of what you are ignorant about.”
― Children of Time
― Children of Time
“Society corrupts the best of us. It is a little unfair, I think, to criticize a person for not sharing the enlightenment of a later epoch, but it is also profoundly saddening that such prejudices were so extremely pervasive. The question raises nagging uncertainties about which of the conventional truths of our own age will be considered unforgivable bigotry by the next.”
― Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
― Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
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