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“Some will believe; some always do. As for the rest - they don't have to believe in the story in order to believe in the idea, and the idea is what matters. That's the way it has always been - the history of mankind is the history of fictions made into truths, and truths made into fictions.”
― B.E. Scully, Verland: The Transformation

“Even people who have money still want more of it. In fact, they typically want it even more than poor people do.”
― Caimh McDonnell, The Final Game

“The only thing that will be born here will be scientific understanding. And the only thing that will die will be myth and superstition.”
“Myth will never die. It is the deepest kind of understanding.”
― James Gurney, Dinotopia: The World Beneath

“Consider the fact that a belief in the immortality of the soul in some form or another is fundamental to every religion. And yet why, then, do most humans fear and despise death? Why do so many consider the universe so small, its energy so limited, that this one blip of time and space is all there is to it?”
― B.E. Scully, Verland: The Transformation